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 ...
Woo-hoo!
One of them was. And I have read that he was the only one with radioactivity on his clothes.
Interesting how the story has grown in the telling. The autopsy reports can be found on the internet, and while most of them were partially disrobed, and none of them had shoes, "hardly any clothing" is an exaggeration.
Definitely works for me!
That certainly makes more sense than anything else that's been written about this case.......
LOL!
Wow, so the prior FReeper thread was Feb 2008. Thanks for surfacing it.
I’ve begun to think that the FINOs “did a little too much LDS”.
There was one survivor, claimed to know nothing, it’s easy to believe that that is hard to believe.
Some interesting speculation:
She was Jewish.
Yekatarinaberg is where the royal family were assassinated.
In Siberia, yes. It’s all relative. A limited number of women makes the plain ones 11’s.
Thanks for the ping, fascinating:
“We should make a clarification on a popular misconception that exists among sites devoted to the fate of Dyatlov Pass tragedy. Several people claimed that diary of the group had a line in the end that stated: Now we know that the snowman (yeti) exists. It is not quite accurate. It is true that the rescue members did discover a newspaper made by the group that was called an Evening Otorten. It was dated on 1st of February, although many believe it was written either late 31st of January or early 1st of February when the group slept in the forest. Firstly the group diary had no entries on this date which suggest the group was either too tired or too scared from their trip.
Secondly one of the articles stated that there was a competition in furnace assembly between Doroshenko and Kholmogorova in the Sport section. The furnace was not assembled by the group on February 1st so it is possible to assume that the newspaper was done before the final ascent to the Kholat Syakhl. This paper does mention Yeti in its Science section. Its exact translation goes. An existence of a snowman is hot topic for the debate among the scientific community. According to last testimonies it lives in the Northern Urals, around mount Otorten. It is possible that some of the locals warned the group against going into a forest, especially after an attack on the reindeer herd by an unknown creature or creatures. Yury Yudin remembers pissed off Igor Dyatlov after his conversation with the local. Although he didnt heard the subject of the conversation he guessed a local man tried to talk him out of going to Otorten. This might be a reason why a snowman was mentioned in the Evening Otorten by the group...”
http://www.ermaktravel.com/Europe/Russia/Cholat-%20Syachil/dyatlov_pass_explanation.html
Yeti did it.
I didn’t realize that the Mormons had any converts in the area at the time. But it definitely does fit with the alien visitors meme. /s
Hate to break this to ya’, bud . . . but the folks over at that website probably think there is a conspiracy to keep the Cubs from winning the World Series.
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