The most famous and mysterious case of the death of tourists is the tragedy that happened to the Dyatlov group in early February 1959. The circumstances have not yet been clarified, and several dozen versions have been put forward. This story is known all over the world and formed the basis of several feature and documentary films. However, few people know that a similar and no less mysterious and tragic story thirty years later took place on one of the passes in Buryatia.
In August 1993, to Irkutsk from Kazakhstan on railroad a group of seven tourists arrived to go 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.
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The group moved from the village of Murino to one of the most high mountains a ridge named Hanulu. 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.
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 ...
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 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!
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- Zhenya
at an altitude above 2000 meters, the pressure in the environment drops and is about 70 kPa, which leads to the onset of altitude sickness, the symptoms are those described by eyewitnesses (blood pressure rises from the nose and ears, the amount of O2 decreases in the alveoli, the barometric pressure changes during internal cavity organs (heart, stomach, lungs, intestines, etc.) this change leads to bleeding, a decrease in O2 in the tissues leads to hypoxia, in turn hypoxia causes a state of euphoria, delirium and hallucinations, there is a feeling of fear of the inexplicable, in this state a person does not feel pain, can tear hair on oneself, take off clothes.Take into account the air temperature at an altitude above 2000 m, 0, -3 degrees, hypothermia occurs, the person quietly dies in ecstasy from hypothermia.
I would like to warn climbers that the adaptation period to altitude sickness is 14 days, only after full adaptation can one climb higher. Considering that Korovina's group climbed to an altitude of 2300 meters in 6 days, a change in weather leads to a drop in pressure in the environment even lower. (i.e. precipitation moves from a higher pressure to a lower one). The survivor claimed that the weather had worsened, which led to an even sharper drop in atmospheric pressure (perhaps by 10-20 kPa, total at that moment was not 70 kPa, but approximately below 60 kPa - such a sharp drop in atmospheric pressure accelerated the course of "mountain sickness" In such conditions, untrained tourists went to their deaths, not knowing it. and hypothermia, and saved the bedrooms from the cold).- Andrey
I agree completely. I would like to add the following. The group immediately got into bad weather, the river along which they entered swelled, the path was flooded, they had to climb the clamps, it took a lot of extra time, the schedule was disrupted. After we climbed onto the ridge and began its traverse, the group almost always went above the forest zone with constant precipitation and an altitude of about 2000 m. there were records that the rise at 6.00 and we were going almost until dark, the lunch break was cut as the leader was trying to reduce the backlog of the schedule, they had a control point of the meeting with the second group, so the leader was driving). I must say that the food was also meager, at the halts, only 1 can of stew for a group of 7 people was found, and the guys were all young, the body was still growing, a lot of calories were required. It is not surprising that in such conditions almost everyone contracted acute respiratory infections. It is easy to explain why Sasha fell first, and this was considered the strongest member of the group (he seemed to be 25 years old). As we understood, he did the hardest work, and ate on an equal footing with the others, we think that he helped everyone, took things and food from the weak to his backpack in order to lighten the backpacks of the weak. We realized this when we loaded his backpack, which was very heavy compared to the backpacks of other participants. With all the factors combined, Sasha's body could not stand it and broke down. All the rest, these are already consequences. Having cornered the group, the leader in this situation herself behaved inappropriately, instead of leaving the dead guy and saving others, having simply lost height, going down into the forest zone, making a fire, etc., she left the guys and stayed at the top with the dead Sasha. In such a situation, the actions of other guys are explained very simply, they all mentally and psychologically broke down with the combination of a bunch of factors described above. Denis in my opinion was not at all 16 years old. Vali was the only one that something worked differently and she went down into the forest zone in prostration. She was saved by the cedars, in any rain under a large cedar there is always a dry patch where the rain does not fall, under the cedar Valya spent the night. But Vali’s psyche was also not all right, they could only talk to her on the 3rd day after she got to the rescuers, this partly explains why the group was found only on August 25. Well, before getting to the rescuers Valya went to Snezhnaya, there she was picked up by water workers, while they passed Snezhnaya, while Valya got to Irkutsk, etc. Rescue groups from Ulan-Ude (2 groups) and Irkutsk began to work as soon as they learned about the death of Kazakhstanis, in my opinion, since August 18, I can be wrong, so many years have passed. Where they died, no one knew, the weather was still standing, the helicopters could not break through, so one of the rescue groups followed the same route and they found the group's parking. Because there were no more rescuers, they called our group from Chita for help. On the morning of 25, we arrived in Ulan-Ude by train, and Valentina already said that from the place of death she was walking down the old telegraph poles, i.e. the place of death was almost determined and at 10 am they gave the weather and permission for the helicopter to take off. the helicopter went at a low altitude and, when approaching the spur, began to pick it up, walking in an arc and just gained altitude and went up above the spur where the group died, we saw them immediately on the first circle after passing 20-25 meters above them. I will not tell you about the spectacle, but as some dreamers write that the bodies were gnawed by wild animals, this is nonsense, when the Irkutsk rescuers flew up, they saw a bear that was just rising, the smell was evident. And also for Nadine (her comment below) - Nadine, try not to live at such a height, but to do hard physical work, no need to write comments on what you do not understand.
- George
Miner at 2300? is that such a thing?
“In 6 days we climbed to an altitude of 2300 meters” - why did they rise from 0 m? clearly not.
there was no negative temperature there either, no need to invent it.
"Untrained tourists"? Where does this information come from? fantasy too? route of the 4th category.
- Andrey
- Nadine
This is complete bullshit!
At an altitude of 2000 meters, nothing like this happens.
Once I had to live in the mountains at 2400, despite the fact that I have always lived on the plain.
Yes, hypoxia (
But this is nothing more than a good idea when walking fast and you don't need to run either. - Nadine
I was in the Hindu Kush, I do not know how many there - but 3000 was for sure!
The cars died out without oxygen, and the people remained adequate. - Art Deco
Zhenya, - I live in 2000 m. I don't feel any changes in my health at all. Tourists come and don't notice anything either. Many don't even know how high they are. One difference is that they use high octane gasoline. number, otherwise you will not go. yes low and don't sell
- K
I have mountain sickness. Symptoms are completely different from those described above. Judging by a sharp change in state and bad weather, there are 3 options:
1) ball lightning
2) electrical "baldness" - a limited area of the zone arising after a lightning strike and existing for several minutes. When a person enters it, it beats with an electric discharge.
3) a very sharp change in pressure in the mountains (I do not remember what this rare effect is called) occurs during bad weather when air masses move from the ridge down. - Maksim
This is clearly not a miner. At such heights, if symptoms appeared, then the maximum would be headaches. We walked along the Tien Shan, the hike lasted 8 days, climbed from 1500m to 4000m. The maximum that one person had was vomiting. The rest have a headache, and even then not for long. And what is described in the article - blood from the ears, is suitable for heights from 7000m.
- Valery Dombrovsky
What do we have as a picture of the incident? Exactly the same as with the Dyatlov group:
1. Described or there are traces of panic, stampede.
2. People undress even in extreme cold.
3. Self-harm is inflicted (in this case, another source said that young people banged their heads against stones). There were also traces of damage in Dyatlov's group. They are attributed to the elements or third parties, but this is unlikely.
4. Events take place in the middle or at the end of a long route.
5. Alcohol is absent: drunk or not taken.
6. Wind.
7. Something happens closer to the night or at the end of it.
8. There are no traces of alcohol consumption in the last few hours of life.Alas, I have no good news guys. This is a classic clinical picture of alcoholic delirium - delirium tremens, squirrels in a folk way. It develops in a sober person 2-5 days after the abrupt cessation of alcohol consumption (when stocks are depleted, if alcohol was not taken on the route). It is no secret that even young people, especially after 20 years, especially amateurs-athletes, regularly consume alcohol “on the ground”, many are accustomed to going on hikes at the rate of 100 grams per person per day. Travel forums are full of this, where the dose is condemned, and where to get alcohol, and how to store it.
If such a person is suddenly left without alcohol (overspending on the way due to a sudden, unplanned cold, losses, etc.), then a few days later, closer to the night, hell begins: monstrous nightmares intolerable to horror, constant fear of death, visual and auditory hallucinations; one sees monsters, snakes, spiders, worms crawling out of the body, terrible insects, phantasmagoric pictures of a Boschian scale, etc. The unfortunate man tries to run away, jump out the window, undress, shaking off the nightmares that creep in, cuts off parts of his own body with a knife, trying to get rid of the monsters that penetrate the body, sometimes tries to commit suicide. In a wild environment, such a clinic is deadly.
Delirium is especially difficult with alcohol intoxication in young people and adolescents who first experienced alcoholization with subsequent abrupt withdrawal.
These terrible tragedies warn: either do not drink at all - nowhere, never and nothing, or if you are already "on the ground" and, moreover, in the mountains you are accustomed to drinking, then do not make any abrupt stops, no sharp drinks on alcohol, drink evenly, as always.
P.S. As for the alleged inadequacy of the leader of the group after the death of Alexander, you need to be absolutely inhuman in order to condemn. After all, he was actually her adopted son. This is force majeure force majeure.
- Vladislav
- Victoria
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 emergency: February 1959, Ural mountains, the slope of Mount Holatchakhl.
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.
Official version death: an elemental force that 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.
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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.
In the same way, I walked along the Langutai River, through the Langutai Gates pass and went to the Tritrans peak, 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.
The most famous and mysterious case of the death of tourists is the tragedy that happened to the Dyatlov group in early February 1959. The circumstances have not yet been clarified, and several dozen versions have been put forward. This story is known all over the world and formed the basis of several feature and documentary films. However, few people know that a similar and no less mysterious and tragic story thirty years later took place on one of the passes in Buryatia.
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. Valentina Utochenko Valentina Utochenko 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, from the words of 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 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 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!
The most famous and mysterious case of the death of tourists is the tragedy that happened to the Dyatlov group in early February 1959.
The circumstances have not yet been clarified, and several dozen versions have been put forward. This story is known all over the world and formed the basis of several feature and documentary films. However, few people know that a similar and no less mysterious and tragic story thirty years later took place on one of the passes in Buryatia.
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. Valentina Utochenko 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.
Then, 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 ...
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 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!
The most famous and mysterious case of the death of tourists is the tragedy that happened to the Dyatlov group in early February 1959. The circumstances have not yet been clarified, and several dozen versions have been put forward.
This story is known all over the world and formed the basis for several feature films and documentaries. However, few people know that a similar and no less mysterious and tragic story thirty years later took place on one of the passes in Buryatia. 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.
Valentina Utochenko 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, from the words of 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 - symptoms like a choking person.
Denis said - quickly take the essentials from our backpacks and run downstairs. I bent over my backpack, pulled out my sleeping bag, raised my head: Denis fell and tore his clothes. I tried to drag by the hand with me, 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 the hurricane. In the morning the wind died down, more or less dawn. I went up to the place 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 the eyes of the guys, packed her things, found a compass and went ...
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 the wires had once been conducted, turned out to be abandoned.
But Valentina went to the Snezhnaya River and moved downstream. On the sixth day after the tragedy, she was accidentally seen and 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!
