Posted on 08/24/2013 1:44:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
Peering through the windswept snow on a dark February day, the rescue party finally came on the first sign of life — the flapping remains of a tent pitched on ski poles on an uppermost slope of Kholat Syakhl, ‘Mountain of the Dead’ in the native language of northern Siberia.
But where were the nine young Russian students who should have been sheltering beneath the canvas?
Curiosity turned to mystery as human tracks were seen in the snow heading downhill away from the tent in single file for a third of a mile... barefoot human tracks.
In temperatures of minus 24! And mystery became horror when an inspection of the tent showed its front flaps still buttoned tightly together but huge knife slashes down the sides — through which the occupants apparently fled.
Inside was like the Mary Celeste, with everything intact — warm clothes, waterproof jackets, blankets and sweaters that would have been essential to survive in the Siberian weather; plus cameras, diaries and cooking utensils, all apparently abandoned in a moment of madness.
So began the story of what became known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, one that has baffled the world for more than half a century since whatever horrific tragedy overtook the nine in February 1959.
They had been missing for almost a month after trekking out into the bleak wildness of the Ural mountains — seven men and two women, all of them fit, hardy and experienced hikers on what was supposed to be a short and invigorating break from their graduate studies.
Haunting photographs from the film in their cameras show the happy and relaxed faces of good friends on an exhilarating adventure, capturing their journey by train, road and on foot to this desolate area.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s not just you. Many think there is some cover up going on.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread453486/pg6
...or not.
LOL!
// Is it just me or does this photo look like it was retouched? >> The guy on the right, it does, doesn’t it? //
He looks as added in as tourist guy or bigfoot would. Interesting.
I’d buy that. Sound or snow hitting the tent panics the group and, blindly, trying to get out they slash the tent. Some are half clothed, others not. They flee, stumble or are taken down in a snow slide and suffer injuries on rocks or just being tumbled. Some die quickly. Some regroup and try to find shelter in the bitter cold night and die of hypothermia in fairly short order. One, the woman, lies dead out in the cold on the surface or near to it. Later, birds find her corpse and feed on the eyes and protruding tongue.
As an aside, I can assure anyone that has never slept at altitude or in sub-zero conditions that being in a mummy bag and crammed like sardines in a tent is a good ingredient for the panic that can ensue from clostrophobia, the absolute stygian blackness or the sounds that cannot be identified or that can be such as the roar of snow moving at speed or even the cracking of ice beneath you on a frozen lake (sounds like cables under tension being plucked).
Seems to fit the facts for me but I don’t believe in aliens, either.
Thanks lowbridge.
// Later, birds find her corpse and feed on the eyes and protruding tongue. //
except that a comment above notes that, apparently, blood was found in her stomach from trauma prior to death.
interesting aside, btw :-) — trumps trees twisting in hurricane winds around a house, I bet.
http://www.ermaktravel.com/Europe/Russia/Cholat-%20Syachil/Kholat%20Syakhl.htm
https://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Dyatlov+Pass+Incident
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/12/renny-harlin-dyatlov-pass-interview
LSD makes sense.
Maybe she was tumbled in a slide and bit her tongue off. The injury would account for the missing tongue and blood in the stomach. It would also be consistent with compression and blunt force injuries that the others seemed to have had.
Hold the phone everyone——mystery solved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yeVivvo9KI
Yeah! Just above the girl, second person from the left, between the two trees is a YETI!! I see the sneaky twerp. I believe!!!!
One further thought about the radiation. Since these students all worked in graduate studies at a polytechnic institute in the Urals, maybe they were all involved (or most) in secret government work with nuclear materials. Crappy safety measures would certainly been no surprise with Soviet SOP as far as I know. Radiation at what level? What kind of radiation? From what kind of materials? All unanswered and fitting with information suppression then and now.
Just my $0.02.
I'm curious though: is that software designed to look for digital manipulation or airbrushing?
I mean, if you run this photo through it will it tell you that the little guy has been airbrushed out?
Of course - SEX and ALIENS!
blair witch project anyone?
Apparently that guy, Semyon (Alexander) Alexandrovich Zolotariov, is the one with the most unusual background, including that he was fifteen years older than the other “students”.
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