The mystery of the death of the cow group. Tragedy in the Khamar-Daban mountains: what secret does the “Buryat Dyatlov pass” hide? Truth that no one will tell ...

1. The death of the Dyatlov group. Perhaps the most famous, but, looking ahead, not the most mysterious case of the death of tourists.

Winter 1959 A group of Sverdlovsk ski students set off for the Northern Urals - on a hike to Mount Otorten.
The group did not leave the route within the target date. rescued were organized. work.
On February 26, a tent covered with snow was discovered.
The outer slope of the tent was badly torn, and there was no one inside. Later they found out: three cuts in the roof were made with a knife from the inside, and pieces of fabric were torn off. One jacket was pushed by force from the inside into the gap of the tent and into the snowy slope. At 15 m below 8 pairs of tracks went down to the forest. They were visible for 60 m, then they were covered with snow.

In the tent, and then in the storage, they found food, things, shoes, equipment and documents of the Dyatlov group. On the evening of February 26, Slobtsov, whose camp was visited by radio operator E. Nevolin with a walkie-talkie, reported the findings to the search headquarters. In the afternoon of February 27, helicopters landed on the pass near the mountain 1096 the main forces of rescuers and the prosecutor of Ivdel Tempalov.

On the morning of February 27, Sharavin and Koptelov, in the forest 1.5 km from the tent, found frozen Doroshenko and Krivonischenko near a large cedar near the remains of a fire. The deceased, stripped to their underwear, had burns on their arms and legs. On the same day, the bodies of Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, and later (March 5) and Slobodin were found under a layer of snow (10-50 cm) on the line between tent and cedar.

They also died from freezing in ski suits and sweaters - "in what they slept." All five were without shoes, in socks. Only Slobodin had one felt boot on his leg. (Later, at Slobodin, doctors found a hidden crack in the crown of the skull 1 x 60 mm.) The investigation was collecting evidence. From 3 to 8 March, tourist masters from Moscow Bardin, Baskin and Shuleshko worked at the site of the tragedy.

Further searches went on unsuccessfully for a long time. On the night of March 31, at 4:00 am, more than 30 search engines from the camp on Auspiya observed the flight of a "fireball" in the southeastern part of the sky for 20 minutes, which was reported to the headquarters. The phenomenon gave rise to many rumors. The investigation collected a number of testimonies about the flight of the "fireball" on February 17, which supplemented the description of Karelin's group.

Four more victims were found on May 5 under a 3-meter layer of snow in a stream bed on a decking made of fir trunks, 70 m from a cedar. Some objects and scraps of clothing were found between them and in the forest. Doctors ascertained that three of the dead had severe intravital injuries - blood in the heart wall and 10 rib fractures in Dubinina (6 on the left and 4 double on the right) and 5 double rib fractures in Zolotarev.

Thibault-Brignoles was found to have a temporal fracture and a 17-centimeter fracture in the base of the skull. The mystery was the absence of external injuries to the body over the injuries, their causes. All four died from freezing and injury. The investigation revealed a strange fact: three items of clothing had traces of weak beta radiation. But in the tissues of the dead, traces of radiation and poisoning were not found.

Why did they cut and tear up the tent, why did the group urgently leave for the forest? How did these injuries arise inside? Where did the radiation spots come from? For all these questions, both investigators and researchers could not give an answer for many years. The official investigation was closed on May 28, 1959 with an unclear conclusion about the impact of "irresistible elemental force", and the case was classified.

2. Despite the presence of a surviving participant, the death of a group of tourists became no less mysterious
under the leadership of Lyudmila Korovina, in 1993 on the Khamar Daban ridge.

A group of seven people, three boys, three girls and the leader of the group, 41-year-old Lyudmila Korovina, a master of sports in hiking, was making a hike

The group moved from the village of Murino to one of the highest mountains of the ridge called Khanulu. Its height is 2371 meters. After walking about 70 kilometers in 5 - 6 days, the tourists stopped for a halt between the peaks of Golets Yagelny (2204m) and Tritrans (2310m). Weather forecasters, however, did not guess. For several days in a row, it snowed and rained and the wind blew. At about 11 o'clock on August 5, when the tourists were about to leave the temporary parking lot, one of the guys became ill. Further, according to the only survivor Valentina Utochenko

Sasha fell, blood began to flow from his ears, foam came from his mouth. Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina stayed with him, appointed Denis the senior, said to go down as low as possible, but not to enter the forest, then the guys Vika, Tanya, Timur began to fall and roll on the ground - the symptoms are like a suffocating person, Denis said - we quickly take the most necessary from the backpacks and running down, bent over the backpack, pulled out the sleeping bag, raised her head. Denis fell and tore his clothes on, tried to drag the hand with him, but he broke free and ran away. She ran downstairs without letting go of the sleeping bag. I spent the night under a boulder, hiding with my head in a sleeping bag, it was scary, trees were falling along the edge of the forest from a hurricane, the wind died down in the morning, more or less dawn rose to the scene of the tragedy, Lyudmila Ivanovna was still alive, but she practically could not move, showed in which direction Valya to go out and passed out, Valya closed her eyes to the guys, packed her things, found a compass and went ... Relay tower After some time, the girl came across an abandoned relay tower at an altitude of 2310 meters, where she spent another night all alone. And in the morning the tourist noticed the pillars going down from the tower. Valentina realized that they should lead her to people, but the houses to which wires had once been forwarded turned out to be abandoned. But Valentina went to the Snezhnaya River and moved downstream, on the sixth day after the tragedy she accidentally saw her and was picked up by a water tour group. They had already sailed past, but decided to return, it seemed suspicious that the tourist did not answer their greetings. From the shock, the girl did not speak for several days. Interestingly, the daughter of Lyudmila Korovina with another tour group walked along a nearby route and agreed to meet with her mother at their intersection. But when Lyudmila's group did not come to the collection point, Korovina Jr. thought that they were simply late due to bad weather and continued on their way, at the end of which she went home, not suspecting that her mother was no longer alive. For some unknown reason, the search dragged on, the bodies of tourists were found only when about a month had passed since the death of the guys and their leader !!! The picture was terrible, rescuers recall. The helicopter descended, and everyone on board witnessed a terrible sight: “The bodies are already swollen, everyone's eye sockets are completely eaten away. Almost all of the victims were dressed in thin leotards, while three were barefoot. The leader was lying on top of Alexandra ... ”What happened on the plateau? Why, freezing, did the participants of the hike take off their shoes? Why did the woman lie on the dead guy? Why didn't anyone use sleeping bags? All these questions remained unanswered. In Ulan-Ude, an autopsy was performed, which showed that all six died from hypothermia, and the investigation agreed that the tragedy was caused by the mistakes and incompetence of the group leader. But the facts say the opposite!

3. Lovozero tundras Mount Angvundaschorr. Seidozero. Kuivo.

At the end of the 50s, the first mountaineering and tourist groups appeared in the Khibiny, the routes of which also ran along the Lovozero tundra. The climbers were attracted by the Angvundaschorr peak, but no one managed to conquer it. Moreover, one of the ascents ended with the death of two experienced climbers. The comrades of the victims fled from the valley, leaving the corpses and all their equipment there. They could not clearly explain the shameful act. They talked about the feeling of wild horror that suddenly gripped them, about the silhouette of some creature that flashed in the crevice of the rock ...

In the summer of 1965, the first unexplained death of tourists occurred in the Lovozero tundra. A group of four people left for the valley and did not return at the appointed time. The search for the missing was long and ended with autumn frosts. At first, they managed to find the last camp of tourists, where a tent, backpacks and eight pairs of torn boots were lying around. Then the remains of the owners of the things were found, gnawed by foxes. The cause of death remained unclear.
Another tragedy happened a few years later. This time, 11 people were killed. An official investigation concluded that there was a massive mushroom poisoning.

Summer 2017
In the Lovozero region, not far from Seydozero, tourists found two abandoned tents in a couple of days. Things were scattered around: clothes, shoes, bowlers, bowls. There were no people.

A torn up tent was found near the Seyduay stream near Seydozero. 50 meters from the main path. Inside there is a sleeping bag, some clothes in the form of a jacket, pants, dishes and shoes.

A second tent was found a little earlier in the same area: things, food, for about two people and no signs of people.

This happened in August 1993. A group of seven tourists came to Irkutsk from Kazakhstan and went to the Khamar-Daban mountains. Only one girl was destined to return from there alive. Six people, including a female instructor, died at an altitude of 2204 meters
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- In August 1993, a group of tourists from Petropavlovsk, Republic of Kazakhstan arrived in Irkutsk by train, - says Leonid Izmailov, then the deputy head of the ZRPSS ( Transbaikal Regional Search and Rescue Service)... - There were seven of them: three girls, three boys and their 41-year-old leader Lyudmila Ivanovna, master of sports in walking tourism. The group set off on the assigned route of the fourth category of difficulty through Khamar-Daban.
The tourists moved from the village of Murino along the Langutai River, through the Langutai Gates pass, along the Barun-Yunkatsuk River, then climbed the highest mountain of Khamar-Dabana Khanulu (2371 m), walked along the ridge and ended up on the watershed plateau of the Anigta and Baiga rivers. Having overcome this significant part of the route (about 70 kilometers) in about 5-6 days, the group stopped for a halt. The place where the tourists made a stop is located between the peaks of Golets Yagelny (2204 m) and Tritrans (2310 m). - This is a completely bare part of the mountains - there are only stones, grass and wind, - explains Leonid Davydovich. - Why the leader decided to stop here, and not go down 4 kilometers, where trees grow, where there is less wind and there is an opportunity to make a fire, is a mystery. Perhaps it was one of the tragic mistakes ...
And to start talking about the instructor's mistake, this is why: on August 18, 1993, the employees of the ZRPSS learned that six participants in the campaign had died. Only 18-year-old Valentina Utochenko survived. The exhausted girl was noticed and taken by tourists from Ukraine, who were rafting down the Snezhnaya River. It was she who told the rescuers about how it all happened.
- Probably, few people remember that on August 3, 1993, a Mongolian cyclone came to Irkutsk and such an amount of precipitation fell that the entire Karl Marx Street was knee-deep in water. Then the pouring rain did not stop for about a day. Naturally, at that time there was also precipitation in the mountains, only there was snow and rain, - says Leonid Davydovich. - All this time the group moved in the mountains, not giving themselves a rest.
It should be noted that at the same time in the Khamar-Daban mountains there was another group from Petropavlovsk-Kazakh. Its leader was the daughter of Lyudmila Ivanovna. Even before the trip, mother and daughter agreed to meet at an agreed place, at the intersection of two routes in the mountains. Perhaps, it was precisely because of the haste that the group did not wait out the bad weather and moved forward all the time. Apparently, when the tourists had no strength left, it was decided to take a break. "How else to explain the decision of the leader to spend the night in an open place, blown by a squally wind, when there were about 4 kilometers to the forest?" - argues Leonid Davydovich.
The rescuers will become aware of the tragedy that took place at the halt only two weeks after the incident - on August 18. From the meager stories of the surviving girl, they were able to imagine what exactly happened there.
- On the night of August 4-5, snow and rain continued to fall in the mountains, the weather was very bad, with a piercing wind, - Leonid Davydovich describes what happened. - All this time, tourists were freezing in a wet tent, unable to warm up by the fire. By the way, the guys' clothes were also wet, because they walked in the rain all day. As a result, on the morning of August 5, they set off, when suddenly at about 11 o'clock one of the guys started foaming, bleeding from his ears - in front of everyone's eyes, 24-year-old Alexander became ill, and he died suddenly.
Further in the group, complete chaos began. It is surprising that this death instilled panic not only in the 16-17-year-old participants in the campaign, but also in the leader - an experienced woman, a master of sports. It is difficult to explain what was happening in the mountains - in front of Valentina Utochenko, who kept her composure, a real madness was going on. “Denis began to hide behind the stones and run away, Tatyana banged her head against the stones, Victoria and Timur were probably crazy. Lyudmila Ivanovna died of a heart attack ”- such data is recorded in the report on search and rescue and transportation operations from the words of the surviving girl.
Valentina, as rescuers say, watched what was happening for a long time, tried to somehow reason with the remaining four, but everything was in vain - those who had lost their minds were uncontrollable, they struggled and ran away from Valentina when she tried to take them from this place into the forest.
When the girl realized that all attempts to save the freezing distraught friends would not be crowned with success, she took her sleeping bag, a piece of polyethylene and went down a few kilometers down the slope. Where there is a forest, where the wind is not felt so. The girl spent the next night there, and in the morning she returned to the parking lot. By this time, everyone who remained on the mountain was dead.
“The strangest thing is that all night, even before the first death, the guys got wet and freezing, but did not even try to warm up,” says Leonid Izmailov. - Each of them had a sleeping bag and plastic wrap, but it remained intact - everything was dry and lay in their backpacks. Why the manager did not take any action is inexplicable. How inexplicable is the general panic that came after the first death.
But, according to rescuers, Valentina acted absolutely correctly and logically. Having climbed the mountain in the morning and saw a terrible picture, the girl was not at a loss - she found a route map in the manager's things, collected food and went to look for salvation. 18-year-old Valya went down to the Anigta River, spent the night of August 7 there, and in the morning continued to move again.
After some time, the girl stumbled upon an abandoned relay tower at an altitude of 2310 meters, where she spent another night all alone. And in the morning the tourist noticed the pillars going down from the tower. Valentina realized that they should lead her to people, but the houses to which wires had once been forwarded turned out to be abandoned. But the tourist went to the Snezhnaya River and moved downstream. Here the girl again had to spend the night, and the next day to continue looking for people. After another 7-8 kilometers, the emaciated Valya stopped. She stretched out her sleeping bag on the bushes by the water - this is how lost tourists designate their presence.
- It was here that a group of tourists from Kiev, rafting down Snezhnaya, noticed her. The Ukrainians saw the banner, moored to the shore and took Valya with them, - continues Leonid Davydovich.
The specialist notes that Valentina Utochenko was very lucky, because people are extremely rare in these places. The girl told what happened to her group, and at the first opportunity the tourists contacted the rescuers. “The information came to us from Oleksandr Kvitnitskiy, a Ukrainian tourist, on August 18 at about one in the afternoon. A helicopter was immediately ordered to go in search of the dead, but for various reasons it was only possible to take off on August 21, - recalls Leonid Izmailov. “But we failed to find a parking lot, although helicopters from Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk flew in search.”
At the same time, two more guys from Omsk were searched in the Khamar-Daban mountains. The fact that they were missing on August 17, the rescuers learned thanks to a participant in the hike, who independently reached Irkutsk to report the lost comrades. The girl said that the leader of the group, 18-year-old Ivan Vasnev and 18-year-old tourist Olga Indyukova, went on reconnaissance and did not show up at the meeting place at the appointed time. After waiting a day, the remaining three, leaving a note and food in place, went to the people.
- Together with two guys from Omsk, who were taken aboard the helicopter already on Snezhnaya, we went in search of the lost. At the same time, the search for the dead tourists was going on in the mountains. We took off on August 23, 24 and 25, - says Leonid Davydovich. - And on the 26th, they finally found Ivan and Olga - they steadfastly waited for salvation at Snezhnaya, stretching out blue plastic on the shore. The guys were fine, they even had food in stock - Snickers and a can of canned meat.
By coincidence, having already taken Ivan and Olga on board, the rescuers also found the dead group from Kazakhstan. The helicopter landed, and everyone on board witnessed a terrible sight: “The picture was terrible: the bodies were already swollen, everyone's eye sockets were completely eaten away. Almost all of the victims were dressed in thin leotards, while three were barefoot. The leader was lying on top of Alexandra ... "
What happened on the plateau? Why, freezing, did the participants of the hike take off their shoes? Why did the woman lie on the dead guy? Why didn't anyone use sleeping bags? All these questions remained unanswered. The group was taken from the place of death by rescuers from Buryatia by helicopter. An autopsy was performed in Ulan-Ude, which showed that all six died from hypothermia. By this time, relatives of the missing tourists arrived in the capital of Buryatia, who eventually took the bodies home. By the way, Lyudmila's daughter, without waiting for her mother's group at the appointed place, decided that the tourists simply did not have time for the agreed time, and calmly continued her hike. Later, when the route of the second category of difficulty was passed, the daughter of the deceased woman, together with her charges, returned to Kazakhstan, not even suspecting the misfortune.
“We saw this group just on August 5,” says Leonid Davydovich. - We had to take the children out of Khamar-Daban, and the daughter of Lyudmila Ivanovna was there for the second day. It was at this time that tragic events were taking place with the group in another place of Khamar-Daban.
Leonid Davydovich says that it is very difficult to understand the reasons for the deaths of six people: “Of course, the weather was bad, but these are tourists - a prepared people, and the leader should know how to behave in such cases. In addition, the woman, in my opinion, made a serious mistake by pitching a tent in a ventilated place far from the forest. And, as I understand it, the group was tired - Lyudmila was in a hurry to meet her daughter and spared no effort. A night spent in the wind in wet clothes and a damp tent has also done its job. "
- What helped Valentina avoid the same fate? Probably character. We don't know her at all, and when we talked in August 1993, the girl was deep in herself - not every person can survive this. The main thing is that she did everything right, which saved her.
P.S. The names of the victims are not listed for ethical reasons.
Turned out to be the most persistent
"Friday" managed to find Alexander Kvitnitsky, a tourist from Kiev, who was part of the group that found Valentina on the Snezhnaya River. Alexander Romanovich shared his memories with us.
“It so happened that we were the first to whom Valya told about the death of her friends,” the man recalls. - She said that they had a wonderful leader and that they were in a hurry to go through the route as soon as possible, so they were very tired. When bad weather came, they were all very cold, but they did not descend from the ridge to wait out the bad weather, but walked all the time. They were even more tired of this. As she said, it all started with the death of the strongest participant in the campaign - a young strong guy. Valya said that the group leader considered him her son, because she raised him from childhood. The guy took his heart, and he suddenly died in front of everyone. Because of this, the leader lost her remaining strength, told everyone to go downstairs and leave her with this guy. The guys, of course, did not abandon her, and she also died in front of their eyes. What happened next, we could not make out: Valya described everything as an attack of mass madness. Despite her attempts, it was simply impossible to organize further movement with the remaining team. She even tried to drag someone by the hand with her, but he broke free and ran away. And Valya, a strong village girl who is accustomed to physical activity, turned out to be the most persistent of all. She was just as unbearably cold as the others, she, too, was numb as she walked, but she was saved by thoughts of her family. The girl thought what would happen to her mother if she did not return home. Taking a sleeping bag and polyethylene, Valya went down to the forest. There she waited out the bad weather, and when she returned, she saw that everyone was dead.
Later I got to the river and decided to wash my hair. She reasoned like this: if you are going to die, you need to look good before you die. By that time, the weather had settled - the sun was hot. We noticed her on the river. Valya had a cold - we gave her antibiotics and other medicines. And when we continued the route along the river, we met Muscovites who traveled to Irkutsk together with Vali's group. They were fishing on the shore, noticed the girl and began to ask where everyone else was and how they were doing. Valya told them everything that happened - it was a shock for them, because during the journey they managed to become friends. Later, when the bodies were already found, our guys helped Valya buy train tickets and walked her home.
Is altitude sickness to blame?
Alexander Kvitnitsky, discussing the reasons for the death of the group, suggests that the group developed altitude sickness, which appears in high altitude conditions: on the heart, blood vessels, cause hallucinations and so on. But at the height at which that group was, altitude sickness almost never happens. "

We managed to find Valentina Utochenko on the Internet. Now the girl who escaped in the mountains on Lake Baikal has a family and children. And talk about that story u
Valentina has no desire: “Do you think I want to remember this nightmare? I had to leave, change my whole life. I don’t want to remember it ”. However, Valentina noted: “Our instructor was of a very high rank and everything that happened was not her fault. Then everything would be fine with us if there was the weather that the forecasters promised "

The old relay tower helped Valentina Utochenko to orient herself and go to the Snezhnaya River, where tourists from Kiev picked her up

ASTANA, 24 Aug - Sputnik, Elena Berezhnaya. The tragedy took place in the Khamar-Daban mountains - the most ancient massif on the planet, encircling Lake Baikal from the south. Then only one participant of the campaign survived - 18-year-old Valentina Utochenko, who could not shed light on the mystery of the death of her comrades.

... There are legends around these places, the degree of mysticism of which is off scale. From the reliable it can be noted - it was here for almost half a century that a large pulp and paper mill was smoking, which closed after a series of gloomy forecasts of ecologists that stretched out for decades. Here, according to the data of the meteorological station, up to 800 earthquakes are recorded per year. Around the bonfires, legends are told about a Bigfoot walking through the local forests. Incredible facts on television talk about aliens who have landed somewhere nearby. It seems that the more conversations, the less chances to make out - how much truth is in everything, and how much fiction.

The story of the death of a group of Peter and Paul tourists who conquered local peaks in August 1993 is absolutely true. People who knew them closely are still uncomfortable with the memories of this tragedy. A couple of years later, a memorial obelisk with the names of those who did not return from the mountains will be erected here by friends of the victims a hundred meters from the unfortunate place. Well, the reason for their mysterious death is still being investigated ...

Greetings from Dyatlov

In conversations about this story, analogies often flash with another, more famous case of the death of tourists in the mountains - the Dyatlov group.

It happened 34 years earlier - in 1959, on the Ural slopes, at an altitude not too transcendental (just over a thousand meters), but the site was classified as of increased complexity. The number of the group of "Dyatlovites" was 10 people, then only one survived (due to illness, he was forced to interrupt the ascent and return back).

Then, only three and a half weeks later, the bodies of skiers were found in the snow, with injuries to internal and external organs. Many were not wearing outerwear. The tent was cut open from the inside, personal belongings were left abandoned. The impression was that the tourists were very frightened and left the tent in a hurry. The official version of death is a spontaneous force, which people were unable to overcome. Death came as a result of mass frostbite.

However, over the decades, this story has acquired many legends, mysteries, versions - where the elements were to blame, and the human factor, and man-made, and even foreign spies and mysterious aliens from outer space. A book was written about this case, a film and a number of television programs were shot.

The tragedy that happened on August 5, 1993 is not pampered with such heightened attention, even in the homeland of the victims - in Petropavlovsk - few have heard of it, although there are no less mystics in this story.

We were a real family ...

... Then the so-called "Turiada" took place in the country - mass trips to forests and mountains. The group of Lyudmila Korovina, 41-year-old helmsman of the Petropavlovsk tourist club "Azimut", which operated at the pedagogical school, also took part in them. In the early 90s in Petropavlovsk there were several groups of people who were fond of and engaged in tourism. But the brightest leader was and remains exactly Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina.

© Photo: from the archive of the tourist club "Azimut"

Head of the tourist club "Azimut" Lyudmila Korovina

One of her students at that time was Evgeny Olkhovsky - a researcher of those events, through whose efforts this story has not been forgotten. He recalls how of them - young and hooligans hanging out from idleness - being in the club made real people.

"She knew how to unite everyone, make a team. She believed in people, believed in people. She could make a person become who he really is. Under her mentoring, each of us managed to maximize our abilities, grow in all spheres of life. How many people thanks to They became excellent teachers, athletes, created families, learned to play the guitar, draw, became stronger, bolder, more correct! We all were like foster children to her, worried about everyone, sent guys and met them from the army, "recalls Evgeny.

Lyudmila Ivanovna was an international master of sports in pedestrian tourism. The geography of campaigns expanded every year - Western Tien Shan, Western Sayan, Northern Urals, Subpolar Urals, Gornaya Shoria, Karakum, Altai. Not for the first time in August 1993 I went to Khamar-Daban ...

In August 1993, Evgeny was also supposed to go on a hike with a group to Khamar-Daban. There was a route of the third category of difficulty. But the circumstances turned out differently: "On the campaign," he recalls, "I was preparing in detail then - I wanted to get a discharge. But a month and a half before leaving I learned that I would have to go to the construction brigade. When I was already there, I was also" buried ", my mother called permanently. Maybe fate. But I rather think - if I were there, everything would have turned out differently ... ".

Deadly halt

So, at the beginning of August 93, a group of seven people (quite experienced already tourists aged from 17 to 20 years old) under the leadership of Lyudmila Korovina went to the mountains from the starting point - the village of Murino. By the way, at the same time another group of our tourists wandered along a different route in the same area, which included the 17-year-old daughter of Lyudmila Ivanovna. Even before the trip, mother and daughter agreed to meet at an agreed place at the intersection of two routes in the mountains.

5-6 days after the start, Korovina's group managed to overcome a significant part of its path - about 70 km. On August 4, the group makes a halt at the summit of 2300 m. Their last halt ... It is noted that this place is a completely bare part of the mountains, it is even compared to the Martian landscapes - there is practically no vegetation and almost no living creatures are found, only stones, grass and wind. The group spent the night at this place. The weather day and night stubbornly discouraged the group of travelers. Contrary to quite optimistic forecasts, then a Mongolian cyclone came to the Irkutsk region - since August 3, it rained and snowed around the clock.

Why did a group of tourists stop at such an open, airy place? From that moment on, history begins to grow overgrown with legends and speculation. On the one hand, the group could descend 400 m lower to the forest zone - for this it was necessary to overcome 4 km of net distance. In such conditions, one could already dream of a saving fire. There was, according to local rescuers, another option - to climb to the top, where a special platform was located. There was firewood, a place to rest. It was only 30 minutes to go to this point.

According to Vladimir Zharov, a well-known journalist and traveler in Buryatia, the reason could be the inaccuracy of the map, which was not uncommon at that time. The spread between the data on the map and what it actually was was 100 meters. In the mountains, this is not as short a distance as it might seem. Finally, it is worth considering the factor that the tourists were so tired and frozen that they decided to stop for a while.

By the way, this place already had a bad reputation - here on August 3, 1914, the famous researcher A.P. Detishchev died in a snowstorm ...

What I wanted to forget

About what happened the next day, August 5, it became known to local rescuers only after almost two weeks - from the words of the only surviving girl. Her stories were subsequently not full of details. Once Valentina briefly and clearly remarked: "Do you think I want to remember this nightmare? I had to leave, change my whole life. I don't want to remember it."

If you collect the memories of different people who happened to hear the girl's story about what happened, you get the following picture.

... On the night of August 4-5, the weather was bad - a thunderstorm thundered, a hurricane was raging below so strong that it fell trees ... In the morning, at 11 o'clock, Alexander, the oldest and strongest of the guys, became ill. He fell. Blood flowed from nose, mouth and ears. It is worth noting here that the head of the group raised the guy from childhood and therefore practically considered her son. She decides to stay with him, and gives instructions to the other guys - to try to go down to the edge of the forest zone. Denis was appointed senior. But - after a while two girls fall at once. They start rolling, ripping their clothes off, grabbing at their throats. Timur fell after them with similar symptoms. Valentina was left alone with Denis. He suggests - grab the essentials from the backpacks and run downstairs. Valentina bent down for her backpack to pull out the sleeping bag. When the girl raised her head, Denis was already lying on the ground. Grabbing a sleeping bag, Valentina ran downstairs. She spent the night under a stone, at the edge of a forest zone. The trees fell nearby like matches. The next morning the girl got up back - Lyudmila Ivanovna was still alive, but - on her last legs. She showed how and where to go out. "

Here is how the events that happened are described from the words of the surviving girl in the report on the search and rescue and transportation works: “It is difficult to explain what happened in the mountains - in front of the eyes of V.U. Denis began to hide behind the stones and run away, Tatyana banged her head against the stones, Victoria and Timur were probably crazy. Lyudmila Ivanovna died of a heart attack. "

Survivor

After collecting food and taking a map in the manager's things, on August 6, Valentina went in search of rescue. The search dragged on for three days.

The girl went down to the Anigta River, where she spent the night of August 7. The next day, she stumbled upon an abandoned relay tower at an altitude of 2,310 meters, where she spent another night all alone. The next morning, noticing the pillars going down, the tourist, hoping that they would lead her to the people, set off on the road. However, the houses to which the wires were connected turned out to be abandoned.

But soon the girl went to the Snezhnaya River and went downstream. Here she had to spend the night again in order to continue searching for people the next day. After walking 7-8 kilometers, exhausted, she stopped and stretched her sleeping bag on the bushes near the water. This is how lost tourists indicate their presence. At this time, a group of tourists from Kiev was rafting along the river, who picked up the girl. Even so, Valentina was extremely lucky - they say that people rarely visit those places ...

At first, the girl did not speak with the tourists who saved her - she was in severe shock, was exhausted. As a result, either as she returned to life, or because of the reluctance (or prohibition) of the rescuers to search for the dead tourists ... they were found only on 26 August.

The truth that no one will tell ...

The picture upon arrival at the scene of the tragedy appeared depressing: mummified bodies, grimaces of horror on their faces ... Almost all the victims were dressed in thin tights, while three were barefoot. The leader lay on top of Alexandra.

What happened on the plateau? Why, freezing, did the participants of the hike take off their shoes? Why did the woman lie on the dead guy? Why didn't anyone use sleeping bags? All these questions remained unanswered.

The dead were buried only a month later - our delegates had been seeking the right to take the dead to their native land for more than two weeks ...

... The bodies were taken out by helicopter. The head of the search group "Search", lawyer Nikolai Fedorov, who at that time was in the group of the rescue expedition, recalls that when information about the tragedy came, he and his colleagues were sent by plane to the scene.

“We were all gathered and in a team of six people were sent to the scene. The task was to find the bodies of the dead. When we arrived, the bodies were already prepared. and at a decent distance from each other (40-50 meters), - said Nikolai Fedorov. - The autopsies were carried out in Ulan-Ude. According to the experts, everyone died from hypothermia ... ".

There are many versions of the circumstances that led to what happened. And the fact that in many Russian sources some inaccuracies or disagreements in the testimony are supposedly deliberately admitted, suggests that someone wanted to "hush up" the story.

So, in the notes of the traveler Leonid Izmailov, Korovina's group appears to be almost a bunch of teenage schoolchildren with a pioneer leader, while the category of difficulty of the route is indicated as higher. And the death was allegedly caused by the unpredictable weather and the unprofessionalism of the leader. However, the average age of the participants in the campaign, even without taking into account the "counselor", was 20 years. Each of them already had a certain number of solid forays behind their shoulders, provided for careful monitoring of the physical condition and nutrition. Strict alcohol taboo. All this excludes the possibility of blaming frivolity, physical unpreparedness.

They add color and drama to Valentina's stories in describing the mass psychosis that happened. The time of Lyudmila Korovina's death is vaguely interpreted - was she still alive on the morning of August 6? According to Valentina, it was. According to some Irkutsk sources, it’s as if no longer. There is an opinion that the rescuers knew about the death that had occurred on August 10-12, and began to search a week later - someone says that the bad weather allegedly interfered with, someone - about solving financial issues ... Or maybe the rescuers were waiting for it to end the effect of certain toxic substances?

Finally, why did the control and rescue service release the groups when entering their routes, if they knew about the approaching strongest hurricane? The forensic examination of the dead is subject to doubts and criticism (and what kind of examination can there be after three weeks of finding the bodies in the open air). However, none of the "mere mortals" apparently saw the details of the investigation. However, now, after so many years, it seems that it is much easier to confuse and overtake the fog than to dot everything.

Obviously, based on the described symptoms, hypothermia was only a concomitant factor, and not the root cause of the death of tourists.

Evgeny Olkhovsky does not believe in the hypothermia version. In his words, such a professional as Lyudmila Ivanovna strictly monitored this so that the guys were provided with food and did not freeze.

"At Korovina's people in minus 50 did not freeze, but here on you ... .. I can rather believe in aliens, but in order for Korovina's people to freeze, I took a dozen trips with her, and I know what I'm talking about ... Possibly poisoning has occurred There was a strong thunderstorm front, maybe the guys got into a high concentration of ozone, so the body could not stand it ", - Evgeny shares his version.

It is known that with ozone poisoning, massive pulmonary edema and vascular rupture occur. How was Valentina and Lyudmila Ivanovna lucky to stay alive in such conditions (until the next morning)? According to the researcher, the characteristics of the organism in the first case, its training - in the second.

Those who passed in those places (only 1000 m lower) write that they were caught in the same rain as the dead group, and after that rain all the woolen clothes of the tourists simply crawled in their hands, and everyone had a severe allergy ...

Moreover, there are even suggestions that in fact several more groups died in those days. Alexei Livinsky, one of the local rescuers who participated in the search for the dead, denies this version. True, according to him, it is reliably known that at the same time a guy was found nearby who died with similar symptoms - this is blood from the ears, and mental clouding with foam from the mouth ...

Livinsky, however, claims that when their group of rescuers was near the scene, no special felling was noticed. And according to Valentina, the hurricane dropped trees like matches. And again the question arises - why did the rescuers postpone their searches for so long, since the speech about the bad weather is exaggerated? Also, according to Livinsky, the corpses of tourists were not at all eaten by animals, and in general a rare animal appears on that "Martian plateau". And, accordingly, the examination was carried out more than complete and reliable. As for the main ecological disaster in the region - the Baikal PPM, it was inactive in those years.

"At the camp sites of the group, we were, to put it mildly, discouraged by the group's diet. For dinner and breakfast, one can of canned meat 338 g and one can of fish 250 g were spent There were clearly too few overnight places. ” that in the tissues of the dead, in the liver and somewhere else, glucose is completely absent. Those syndromes that were observed in the group fully correspond to hypothermia plus complete exhaustion of the body. "

There was another version of what happened, which was voiced in Petropavlovsk: the alleged cause of death was ... banal poisoning with Chinese stew. However, there were no signs of poisoning in the group, and pathologists did not find toxic substances in the tissues.

“If people have eaten something that can lead to poisoning, then each organism will react in its own way. Poisoning cannot affect everyone equally. half an hour. On account of hypothermia is also unclear, the air temperature could not sharply
drop to 5 or 10 degrees below zero. Our assumption is that there was an anticyclone and there was a strong wind. Magnetic vibrations began, huge air currents set in motion, which created infrasound, and it could affect the psyche. Individual rocks under a strong wind can become an infrasonic generator of enormous power, which causes a person to experience a state of panic, unaccountable horror. According to the girl who survived, her friends were restless, their speech was inconsistent, "says Nikolai Fedorov, a member of the search group.

It is most often mentioned that tourists could develop vegetative-vascular dystonia (VVD). This is almost directly indicated by the fact that they tried to undress - in the case of attacks of VSD, it may seem that the clothes are strangling. However, it was too late to cope with the symptoms - as a result, numerous hemorrhages.

A tragedy could have happened for man-made reasons, given the large number of closed zones on Lake Baikal. And the rescuers got out to the rescue, having already waited for the emissions to dissipate ...

In general, versions, secrets, riddles and - there are much more questions than answers ...

By the way, the Azimut club did not last long after the tragedy - 3-4 years, its old-timers say - there was no worthy replacement for Lyudmila Ivanovna ...

There were seven of them: three girls, three boys and their 41-year-old group leader, a master of sports in hiking. The group set off on the assigned route of the fourth category of difficulty through Khamar-Daban. Only one person returned ...

"The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass". The film with that name was released last week. The speech in the tape is about one of the most mysterious secrets of the Urals - in February 1959. However, no less terrible story happened 20 years ago in Buryatia, on the Khamar-Daban pass.

In 1993 in the area Peak Repeater (Mount Tritrans) almost the entire tourist group was killed. Only one participant of that fateful campaign survived.

This is an attempt to restore the history of the tragic events on Khamar-Daban according to the people who were involved in the search for the tour group and who were investigating the incident. In the course of work on the material, the correspondents were surprised at how much the details of the tragedies converged.

A bit of history

We will not particularly retell the mysterious events that happened to the tourists from the Dyatlov group. About the incident on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (translated from Mansi as "Mountain of the Dead") in the media, they tried to reconstruct the events at the "Battle of Psychics", based on the state of emergency, a documentary, and now a feature film, was filmed.

However, all versions (a blow from a secret weapon, tourists went crazy, killed by the military, fell under an avalanche, poisoned with poisons) are only hypothetical. Until now, no one knows what happened on Mount Holotchakhl. Anyone interested in this story can find on the Internet a lot of documentary evidence, photographs, artistic versions and scientific hypotheses.

So this fatal peak is not deprived of attention. But this cannot be said about the incident on Khamar-Daban, where six people from Petropavlovsk-Kazakhskiy died. During the investigation, we had to collect material literally bit by bit.

Unfortunately, little is known about some of the details. And the only surviving participant of the fatal campaign, which we managed to find through social networks, did not answer our questions. Apparently, it’s just hard for her to remember what happened in the rainy August 1993 in the mountains of Buryatia.

A series of strange deaths

There was little media coverage of the tragedy at Tritrans Peak. Of the local editions, only one of the Irkutsk newspapers wrote about the state of emergency. But in Kazakhstan they talked a lot about this event. Therefore, in terms of the chronology of the emergency, we will rely on their messages.

In August 1993, a group of tourists arrived by train from Petropavlovsk-Kazakh.

This is a completely bare part of the mountains, there are only stones, grass and wind, - the words of Leonid Izmailov, the former deputy head of the Trans-Baikal Regional Search and Rescue Service, are quoted on the forum.

For several days it was snowing and raining over the mountains. Exhausted, the group took a break. Below, at a distance of four kilometers, lies the edge of the forest. Why tourists did not descend into the forest is still a mystery.

On the morning of August 5, they got ready to go, when suddenly at about 11 o'clock one of the guys started to foam from his mouth, bleeding from his ears. In front of everyone's eyes, Alexander K-in became ill, and he died suddenly, - said Leonid Izmailov.

After that, according to the surviving Valentina U-ko, complete chaos began in the group. “Denis began to hide behind the stones and run away, Tatyana banged her head against the stones, Victoria and Timur were probably crazy. Lyudmila Ivanovna died of a heart attack ”- such data were recorded in the report on search and rescue and transportation operations from the words of the surviving girl.

And here is how Kazakh athletes describe what happened on the forum:

... “After a while, two girls fall at once, begin to skate, tore off their clothes, grab at their throats, the symptoms are the same, the boy falls behind them. The girl and the guy are left, they decide to leave the essentials in their backpacks and run down. The girl bent over her backpack while she was laying it out, raises her head, the last guy with the same symptoms is rolling on the ground. The girl ran downstairs. I spent the night under a stone, on the edge of a forest zone, trees felling nearby like matches. I got up back in the morning. "

... “Having separated from the group and not knowing how to escape, the tourists died one by one from hypothermia and exhaustion. Stretched out on the slope and died one after another. "

... “I read about it several years ago on some website ... A hypothesis was put forward about the effect of infrasound: strong wind, specific relief”.

... "I heard a version about poisoning with some kind of gas ...".

Seeing the dead, Valentina went in search of people. She was rescued by Ukrainian water tourists. They first sailed past, but decided to return - it seemed to them suspicious that the girl did not answer their greetings. The girl did not speak for several days. The corpses were removed almost a month later, they were buried in zinc - the weather, animals and birds did a good job ...

The picture was terrible, rescuers recall. Almost all of the victims were dressed in thin leotards, while three were barefoot. What happened on the plateau? Why, freezing, did the participants of the hike take off their shoes? These questions remained unanswered. An autopsy was performed in Ulan-Ude, which showed that all six died from hypothermia.

So, it is worth summing up some results. The events at Mountain of the Dead and Tritrans Peak have a number of similar details. But there are also differences.

Similarities and differences of incidents.

Dyatlov group.

Time and place of the emergency: February 1959, Ural Mountains, slope of Mount Kholatchakhl.

Number: 10 people. Killed 9. Only 1 survived (due to illness, he was forced to interrupt the ascent and returned).

Judging by the reports from the emergency site, the group left the parking lot in panic, as if they were terribly frightened by something. The tent was cut open from the inside, personal belongings were thrown.

The bodies were found in various places. The impression was that the Dyatlovites simply fell dead. Many were not wearing outerwear.

The dead were found to have strange intravital trauma to internal organs. The experts explained the trauma of external organs (absence of eyes, tongue) by the fact that the bodies had been lying in the forest for a long time and could become prey for animals.

The official version of death: a spontaneous force, which people were unable to overcome. For all the victims, it was concluded that death was caused by exposure to low temperatures (freezing).

Korovina's group

Time and place of the emergency: August 1993.

Number: 7 people. Killed 6. 1 tourist survived.

According to reports on Kazakh forums, the group panicked. The reason is the sudden death of a tourist. The bodies were found in almost one place. Some were not wearing outerwear. No injuries were found on the bodies. The official version of the death: the tourists froze.

Versions

The tourists are frozen

In the days of August 1993, the rescuer Yuri Golius, well-known in Buryatia, is in charge of the search for the bodies of the dead tourists. Here's what he said:

Specialists of our control and rescue service served climbers, hikers and ski tourists. All organized tourist groups with a route sheet and a route book were registered with the Committee for Civil Defense and Emergencies. Including the group of Lyudmila Korovina, who led a group of children from Kazakhstan.

In 1993, the country hosted the so-called "Turiada" - massive hikes in forests and mountains. The group of Lyudmila Korovina also took part in them. By the way, at that moment on Khamar-Daban, but her daughter was in the other group. The mother and daughter agreed in advance to meet at a certain place, but the second group did not manage to come in time.

I was in Kyren when I was informed that water tourists had brought a girl from a group lost in the mountains to Slyudyanka. I met with Valya U-ko. The girl was in a state of shock. Nevertheless, I asked her to give an explanatory note. According to her, before the onset of the fateful night, the group gathered and dried the golden root at the pass all day. The whole day there was a cold rain with snow, a strong wind was blowing. Exhausted tourists were very cold and hungry.

The version of what happened on the fatal morning of August 5 was discussed above. Now about what happened next.

The girl took the sleeping bag and went down the slope. She spent one night in the forest, and the next morning she climbed the pass, closed the eyes of her dead comrades. After that, she walked along the ridge, saw the pillars going down from a nearby relay tower, went down to the Snezhnaya River and moved downstream. There she was noticed by tourists, - says the lifeguard.

Specialists from Chita and Gusinoozersk joined the detachment of Yuri Golius, and an investigator from the prosecutor's office was in one of the helicopters. When the team from Irkutsk arrived, the bodies of the tourists were found. About a month has passed since the death of the guys and their leader.

According to Yuri Golius, hypothermia and loss of strength became the cause of death of tourists.

Unfavorable coincidence of circumstances

Exactly five years after the tragedy, Vladimir Zharov, a well-known journalist and experienced traveler in Buryatia, walked alone along the fatal route.

There was much that was unclear about this incident. Therefore, I decided to completely repeat the route of the Kazakh group and investigate what had happened on the spot, - Vladimir Zharov told Inform Police.

He timed his trip to the 5-year date of the death of the group.

I walked along the Langutai River in the same way, through the Langutayskie Vorota pass and went to the top of Tritrans, on the slope of which the group died, - says Zharov.

Inspection of the place of emergency made it possible to draw certain conclusions.

You can talk about a whole chain of tragic circumstances. The most important thing, of course, is the weather. August 1993 was very rainy. Later, the Kazakh athletes who came to the place of the death of the group could not believe in any way - it's summer outside, the heat is at 30 degrees, and our people freeze to death. However, this is most likely the case, - says Vladimir Zharov.

It was raining almost all the days when Korovina's group walked along the route.

Imagine a cold rain pouring down day and night. Clothes and tents are wet. It is difficult to light a fire. On Khamar-Daban and in normal weather, this is difficult to do, everything is damp. And here it rains for several days! Therefore, the guys were tired and cold by August 5, - says Vladimir Zharov.

Food, which was enough only for the so-called "external heating" of the body, did not save me from the cold either. There were a number of other reasons as well. For example, many wondered why the group stopped on the slope, and did not begin to climb to the top, where there was a special platform. There was firewood, a place to rest. It took only 30 minutes to walk to this point. But the group stopped on a bare slope. According to Vladimir Zharov, the reason could be the inaccuracy of the map.

It was 1993. The maps weren't as accurate as they are now. The spread between the data on the map and what it actually was was 100 meters. And in the mountains, 100 meters is already a lot, - the journalist explains.

It is possible that the experienced group leader Lyudmila Korovina simply did not find her way in the coming twilight. Or maybe she took pity on the tired guys and stopped, not reaching the top, blown by the winds.

In the morning, Lyudmila Korovina saw that it had snowed. She was an experienced traveler and immediately understood how this threatened the tired and frozen group. Immediately she gave the order - to immediately fold up and go down to the edge of the forest. The guys did just that. We packed our things, rolled up the tents. And then the tragedy happened. In front of everyone's eyes, the oldest student Alexander suddenly fell and died, - says Zharov.

It was a shock. The strongest and oldest of the guys died, the one who could make a fire, chop branches, help carry heavy things, the support and hope of the leader Lyudmila Korovina. It is not hard to imagine what feelings she could have overwhelmed at that moment. After all, she was responsible for the life of each member of the youth group. Korovin gives the only correct command - all tourists must immediately go down to the forest. But she herself remains next to the body of the deceased guy.

What happened next is difficult to find out now. A group of teenagers began an organized descent to the forest. But then they suddenly returned. Why? Did the group leader call them? Or did they themselves decide not to leave Lyudmila Korovina on the snow-covered slope? But what the children saw plunged them into horror - the leader of the group died.

Further actions of the guys are shrouded in mystery. On the forums, they say that teenagers have fallen into despair. Only Valentina U-ko did not lose her composure and tried to take over the management of the group. She tried to calm down the tourists, demanded to execute the last command of Korovina - to go to the forest. She dragged them by the arms, pushed them in front of her.

But, apparently, they did not obey her. The girl, realizing that all her actions were useless, went to the edge of the forest alone. In the morning, she found that all the other members of the group were dead.

Inspection of the place of emergency, says Vladimir Zharov, showed that hypothermia was the cause of death. In this he completely agrees with Yuri Golius.

I don't see mystics here, - said the traveler. - It was an unfavorable combination of circumstances.

Every year in the media there are publications about the death of climbers. The most famous and mysterious case is the tragedy that happened to the Dyatlov group in early February 1959. The circumstances that led to the death of nine climbers have not yet been clarified, but the media paid sufficient attention to what happened. Not so long ago, the movie "The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass" was even released. And few people know about the mysterious death of six climbers, which occurred in Buryatia at the Khamar-Daban pass.

In August 1993, a group of seven tourists arrived in Irkutsk from Kazakhstan by rail to travel to the Khamar-Daban ridge. Forecasters promised suitable weather for the ascent, and the group set off for the mountains. It consisted of three young men, three girls and 41-year-old leader Lyudmila Korovina, who had the title of master of sports in walking tourism. The Khamar-Daban ridge does not shake with its height. The highest point is 2,396 meters. Situated on ledges, with pointed peaks and ridges, the ridge is one of the oldest mountains on our planet. Thousands of tourists visit these beautiful places every year. Nothing foreshadowed trouble. The group moved from the village of Murino to one of the highest mountains of the ridge called Khanulu. Its height is 2371 meters. After walking about 70 kilometers in 5 - 6 days, the tourists stopped for a halt between the peaks of Golets Yagelny (2204m) and Tritrans (2310m). Weather forecasters, however, did not guess. For several days in a row, it snowed and rained and the wind blew. What made the experienced leader set up camp on the bare part of the mountain is anyone's guess. Just four kilometers down the slope, there was a forest where you could shelter from the bad weather and make a fire. At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon on August 5, when the tourists were about to leave the temporary parking lot, a young man named Alexander became ill. Suddenly, blood spurted from his ears, and foam came out of his mouth. He died literally a few minutes later. All members of the group were horrified. Something strange began to happen. The leader of the group fell unconscious. Mass hysteria began. The young man, whose name was Denis, ran and hid behind the stones, one of the girls (Tatiana) banged her head against the stones. Two girls fell to the ground and began to rip at their clothes and grab their throats with their hands. After a while, another young man fell. The remaining boy and girl decide to take with them only the essentials and go downstairs. While the girl lays out unnecessary things from the backpack, the guy with the same symptoms falls to the ground. Overwhelmed by fear, the girl runs down, but does not reach the forest. She sees how the hurricane force of the wind breaks trees and knocks them to the ground. Hiding under a large rock, the girl spends a sleepless night, and in the morning she decides to return to the camp. Having risen, Valentina found that all the participants in the campaign were dead. And I decided to look for people. Noticing the old relay tower, the girl managed to orient herself and went to the Snezhnaya River. Pillars stretched down from the tower. Reasoning that they could lead her to a home, Valentina went, focusing on the electric wires. And she came to the houses, but they turned out to be abandoned. Two days later, barely alive, she was discovered next to the river by the Snow group tourists from Kiev. Valentina was very lucky - people were rarely in those places. The dead were taken out by helicopter. An autopsy was carried out in Ulan-Ude. According to the conclusion, everyone died from hypothermia. The only survivor Valentina Utochenko does not like to remember what happened. Overpowering herself, she said that it all began with the death of Alexander, the strongest and strongest guy in the group. According to her, his heart seized, which is why he suddenly died in front of everyone. The leader of the group, Lyudmila Korovina, who treated Alexander like a son, ordered the group to go downstairs and leave her with the deceased. And then died herself. And then a mass hysteria began. Seeing how the members of the group, one by one, fall to the ground, Valya rushed down. After Valentina's story, the conclusion about the cause of death of the tourists is questionable. If Utochenko believes that both Alexander and Korovina died of a heart attack, then why does the conclusion given by the Ulan-Ude doctors say that all members of the group died as a result of hypothermia? And why did they fall one after another in a short period of time, with foam from the mouth and blood coming from the ears? Perhaps the reason for their death lies in something else?
Someone put forward a version that the participants in the events could have been poisoned by an unknown gas. Someone thinks that as a result of the strong wind and the specific topography of the area, an infrasonic wave was formed, which killed the tourists. It is also surprising that there were no warm clothes on the bodies of the deceased. They wore only light tights. And three of the dead were found barefoot at all. Why? What made them, dying of hypothermia, take off their outerwear? There are many questions. Only there are no answers to them. The death of six people at the Khamar-Daban pass has remained an unsolved mystery….