Scientists have uncovered the mystery of the death of tourists on the Dyatlov Pass. Mysterious death of tourists from Kazakhstan near Lake Baikal Mysterious death of climbers on the Khamar Daban pass
In August 1993, a group of tourists from Kazakhstan: three girls, three boys and their 41-year-old leader Lyudmila Korovina, a master of sports in hiking, set off along the route of the fourth category of complexity through Khamar-Daban.
They moved from the village of Murino along the Langutai River, through the Langutai Gate Pass, along the Barun-Yunkatsuk River, then climbed the highest mountain of Khamar-Daban Khanulu (2371 m), passed along the ridge and ended up on the watershed plateau of the Anigta and Baiga rivers. Having overcome this significant part of the journey (about 70 kilometers) in about 5-6 days, the group stopped for a halt. The place where the tourists camped is between the peaks Golets Yagelny (2204 m) and Tritrans (2310 m).
Here's what the last one looks like:
This is a completely bare part of the mountains - there are only stones, grass and wind. It is not clear why the leader decided to stop there, and not go down to the trees, where there is less wind and there is an opportunity to build a fire.
On August 3, 1993, a cyclone came to the region, and such an amount of precipitation fell that in Irkutsk the entire Karl Marx Street was knee-deep in water. The pouring rain did not stop for about a day. From 3 to 5 August it was snowing and raining in the mountains, and the group moved without rest. Apparently, when the tourists no longer had the strength, it was decided to make a halt. Tourists were freezing in a wet tent and clothes, not being able to warm themselves by the fire.
In the morning, Lyudmila Korovina saw that it had snowed, and immediately realized what it meant for a tired and frozen group. She immediately gave instructions - to immediately turn around and go down to the edge of the forest. They began to collect things, rolled up tents. And this is where the tragedy happened. On the morning of August 5, they got ready to go, when suddenly, at about 11 o'clock, in front of everyone, 24-year-old Alexander Krysin foamed from his mouth, blood poured from his ears, and he died immediately.
Korovin gave the only true command - all tourists must immediately go down to the forest. But she herself remained next to the body of the deceased guy. The group began an organized descent to the forest, but then for some reason they returned back. What they saw horrified them - the leader of the group died.
The panic began. According to Valentina Utochenko, “Denis began to hide behind the stones and run away, Tatiana hit her head against the stones, Victoria and Timur probably went crazy. Lyudmila Ivanovna died of a heart attack.
Valentina tried somehow to reason with the remaining four, but everything was in vain - they broke out and ran away when she tried to take them away from this place into the forest. She even tried to drag someone by the hand with her, but he broke free and ran away.
When she realized that all attempts to save her freezing, distraught friends would fail, she took her sleeping bag, a piece of polyethylene and went down a few kilometers down the slope, where she spent the next night, and returned to the parking lot in the morning. By this time, everyone left on the mountain was dead. The strangest thing is that all night, even before the first death, the guys were wet and cold, but did not even try to warm up. Each of them had a sleeping bag and plastic wrap, but this remained intact - everything was dry and lay in backpacks.
Climbing the mountain in the morning and seeing a terrible picture, the girl was not at a loss - she found a route map in the manager’s things, collected food and went down to the Anigta River, where she spent the night of August 7, and continued moving again in the morning.
After some time, she 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 the wires had once been thrown 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 the search for people. After walking another 7-8 kilometers, the exhausted Valya stopped. She stretched out her sleeping bag on the bushes near the water - this is how lost tourists indicate their presence. It was here that a group of tourists from Kyiv noticed her and took Valya with them.
On August 26, rescuers from a helicopter found a dead group from Kazakhstan. “The picture was terrible: the bodies were already swollen, everyone’s eye sockets were completely eaten away. Almost all of the dead were dressed in thin tights, while three were barefoot. The leader lay on top of Alexander ... "
Dyatlov Pass Theme and the mystery of the death of students on it worries many, a bunch of hypotheses, films have been made. Even in the Battle of psychics, they tried to unravel the mystery - no matter what the psychic is, then their own version.
And here is another, apparently not the last "scientifically based" version.
New research scientists point to the possible cause of death of the tourist group Igor Dyatlov in 1959. Experts linked the deaths to a similar accident, when in 1993 a group of tourists from Kazakhstan died in Buryatia in circumstances similar to the story of the Dyatlovites.
So in 1993 a group of students led by Lyudmila Korovina went to the Khamar-Daban pass. Of the seven people, only one returned - Valentina Utochenko. She does not want to remember the horror she experienced.
Vladislav Rzhavtsev- a member of the local tourist club, also walked the fatal route to study the causes of those terrible events, REN-TV reports.
"Then there was a very strong cyclone, the weather deteriorated sharply. If even a day before they passed, well, the weather pursued them immediately, but was more or less tolerable, then on the morning of August 5, according to the survivor Valentina, it snowed, the temperature dropped sharply, almost to zero" explains the researcher.
It rained over the mountains for several days. Exhausted, the tourists stood at a halt. The mountains in this part are completely bare, only stones, grass and wind. Why the group did not go down to the edge of the forest is unknown. We spent the night on a rocky peak. On the morning of the fifth of August, the tourists got ready to go.
"There was a hurricane wind, there was snow, it was cold. Here Alexander Krysin falls first, the strongest, the right hand of Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina. His nose and mouth are bleeding, and, according to Valentina, he is dying. At least he loses consciousness and can't go any further."-continues Rzhavtsev.
After that, the group began complete chaos. Someone started to hide and run away. Someone was banging his head against the rocks. The rest behaved like out of their minds. So it is written in the report on search and rescue operations. People tore their clothes. Some got nosebleeds. Lyudmila Korovina died of a heart attack.
"The fact is that Valentina also did not understand anything. Perfectly healthy guys fall, tear their clothes, beat their heads against stones and die one by one. She could not understand what had happened, and when she realized that she could not help in any way, she simply went downstairs to somehow ride out this storm.", explains Rzhavtsev.
Valentina Utochenko a few days later picked up by other tourists. The official cause of death of the group Korovina- hypothermia. But researchers insist - people died from something else. Yes, they were lightly dressed, but there were warm clothes in their backpacks.
"They would be able to get dressed, supercool, a person cannot freeze so quickly. They died abruptly. They had enough time to get dressed. They began to choke, and by all indications it was poisoning.", suggests a member of the tourist club Natalia Rzhavtseva.
Researchers insist: in death groups of Igor Dyatlov and Lyudmila Korovina too much in common for it to be a coincidence. Both of them left the parking lot in a panic, as if they were frightened by something. The bodies were found in various places. As if people were dropping dead, many were not wearing outerwear.
One of the initiators of the trip to Kholat-Chakhl Vladimir Borzenkov sure that the cause of death was infrasound.
"If we take the top of two neighboring mountains and draw a straight line between them, then along the ridge itself, with a wind speed of about 15 meters per second, about 60 tons of air per second passes. I believe that this is the most likely source of this infrasound that could affect the Dyatlov group", says the researcher.
Igor Dyatlov group died on the night of February 1-2, 1959. Tourists from the club of the Ural Polytechnic University went on a hike to the village of Vizhay Sverdlovsk region. The day before the tragedy, they were already trying to climb the Kholat-Chakhl pass. Because of the storm wind, they did not succeed, they postponed the ascent to the next day.
"In the dark time of the day, the so-called "X" moment came, when the group was forced to hastily leave the tent. They could have exited through the entrance, of course. However, they were forced to take the extreme measure and cut open the tent. The urgency of the flight is also evidenced by the fact that the group was practically not dressed.", explains Borzenkov.
Dyatlovites ran out into the cold naked. That night the temperature dropped to minus 28 degrees. Later, rescuers found warm clothes and shoes in the tent. The bodies of tourists were found at an impressive distance from the camp.
What caused people to flee in panic? Some are even barefoot.
The official cause of death was hypothermia. Many versions were put forward - from an avalanche to a UFO. However, today we can say: the expedition was killed by sound waves.
"Only something extraordinary could force him to leave the tent, in particular, for example, some kind of impact on the psyche. The brain, which has its own frequencies, was affected by something external. In particular, an acoustic wave could act", says the researcher.
Few people know that if a person is exposed to low-frequency sounds, instant death will occur. No doctor can explain this. Scientists have conducted a series of experiments. The animals were exposed to infrasound, and this led to the rupture of cerebral vessels and cardiac arrest.
"Even not very strong levels of infrasound affect the mental state of a person. In particular, there is a feeling of fear, a feeling of insecurity, internal organs begin to tremble. With an increase in the amplitude of the sound, breathing disorders may occur and the heart rhythms go astray. Higher sound levels lead to lesions associated with oxygen supply to the brain", explains scientist-acoustic Kanaev.
Fierce winds in the Ural and Trans-Baikal passes could turn into a tornado. They went far from the tents and campsites of tourists. They didn't even damage them. But the tornado caused an unusual phenomenon. People felt the effect of infrasound, so in a terrible panic they rushed to run.
"Infrasound has an impact not only on the human psyche, but also on the whole organism. These fluctuations are dangerous because they are difficult to catch. For example, fluctuations of 7-8 hertz can also cause disturbances in the work of thought processes, panic, a sense of unexplained anxiety, danger.", comments Candidate of Medical Sciences Svetlana Artemova.
Despite the development of science, infrasound is still poorly understood. It is only known that these are low frequency waves. We do not hear them, but we obey them.
Recent studies by scientists confirm that infrasound causes people to panic, horror, can drive you crazy and even cause cardiac arrest. The most thorough investigation will reveal no traces. A strong wind at sea or in the mountains, a thunderstorm and even aurora is one of the reasons for the appearance of infrasound. Now the researchers are sure: the mysterious death of two expeditions is indisputable proof of the existence of a fantastic killer sound.
PS (Valex). My version was ball lightning. However, the appearance of ball lightning is sometimes accompanied by strange sound waves, so two in one is possible. Also, it is not necessary to reset the version of testing psi-weapons in those places, because some variants of psi-weapons are just based on infrasonic effects on the human subconscious, causing panic in the crowd or in the enemy army.
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 skiing students set off for the Northern Urals on a hike to Mount Otorten.
The group did not leave the route within the deadline. rescues were organized. work.
On February 26, a tent covered with snow was discovered.
The outer slope of the tent was severely torn, 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 pressed by force from the inside into the gap in the tent and into the snowy slope. 15 m below, 8 pairs of tracks went down to the forest. They were visible for 60 m, then covered with snow.
In the tent, and then in the storehouse, they found food, things, shoes, equipment and documents of the Dyatlov group. On the evening of February 26, Slobtsov, to whose camp the radiologist E. Nevolin came with a walkie-talkie during the day, reported the finds to the search headquarters. On the afternoon of February 27, helicopters landed on the pass near Mount 1096 the main forces of rescuers and the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel Tempalov.
On the morning of February 27, Sharavin and Koptelov in the forest, 1.5 km from the tent, found near a large cedar near the remains of a fire frozen Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. The dead, stripped to their underwear, had burns on their arms and legs. On the same day, under a layer of snow (10-50 cm) on the tent-cedar line, the bodies of Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, and later (March 5) Slobodin were found.
They also died from freezing in ski suits and sweaters - "what they slept in." All five were without shoes, in socks. Only on the leg of Slobodin was one felt boot. (Later, doctors found a hidden crack in the crown of the skull 1 x 60 mm in Slobodin.) The investigation was collecting evidence. From March 3 to March 8, tourist masters from Moscow Bardin, Baskin and Shuleshko worked at the scene of the tragedy.
Further searches went on for a long time without success. On the night of March 31 at 04:00, more than 30 searchers 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 has given 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 dead were found on May 5 under a 3-meter layer of snow in the bed of a stream on a deck of fir trunks, 70 m from the cedar. Both they and in the forest found some items and scraps of clothing. Doctors stated that three of the dead had severe intravital injuries - blood in the wall of the heart and fractures of 10 ribs in Dubinina (6 on the left and 4 double on the right) and 5 double fractures of the ribs in Zolotarev.
Thibaut-Brignolles was found to have a temporal fracture and a 17-centimeter fracture at the base of the skull. The mystery was the absence of external injuries of the body above the injuries, their causes. All four died from freezing and injuries. The investigation revealed a strange fact: three items of clothing had traces of weak beta radiation. But no traces of radiation and poisoning were found in the tissues of the dead.
Why did they cut and tear the tent, why did the group urgently leave for the forest? How did these injuries originate inside? Where do the radiation spots come from? Both investigators and researchers could not answer all these questions for many years. The official investigation was closed on May 28, 1959 with a fuzzy conclusion about the impact of "irresistible force of nature", 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 head of the group - 41 year old Lyudmila Korovina - master of sports of hiking traveled
The group advanced from the village of Murino to one of the most high mountains mountain range called Hanulu. Its height is 2371 meters. After walking about 70 kilometers in 5-6 days, the tourists stopped for a halt between the peaks Golets Yagelny (2204m) and Tritrans (2310m). Weather forecasters, however, did not guess. For several days in a row it snowed with rain and the wind blew. At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon 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 came out of his ears, foam came out of his mouth. Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina stayed with him, appointed Denis as a 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 those of 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 tears his clothes, tried to drag him by the hand with him, but he broke free and ran away. She ran downstairs without letting go of her sleeping bag. I spent the night under a boulder, hiding with my head in a sleeping bag, it was scary, trees fell from the hurricane along the edge of the forest, in the morning the wind died down, more or less dawn rose to the place of the tragedy, Lyudmila Ivanovna was still alive but practically could not move, showed in which direction Valya should go and switched off, Valya closed the guys' eyes, 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 the wires had once been thrown 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 passed by, but decided to return, it seemed suspicious that the tourist did not return their greetings. From shock, the girl did not speak for several days. It is interesting that the daughter of Lyudmila Korovina with another tour group walked along the neighboring route and agreed to meet her mother at their intersection. But when Lyudmila's group did not come to the collection point, Korovina Jr. thought that they were just late due to bad weather and continued on their way, after 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 out. Almost all of the dead were dressed in thin tights, while three were barefoot. The leader was lying on top of Alexander ... "What happened on the plateau? Why did the hikers take off their shoes when freezing? Why did the woman lay down on the dead guy? Why didn't anyone use sleeping bags? All these questions remain unanswered. An autopsy was performed in Ulan-Ude, 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 otherwise!
3. Lovozero tundra Mount Angvundaschorr. Seydozero. Kuyvo.
At the end of the 1950s, the first climbing and tourist groups appeared in the Khibiny, whose routes also ran along the Lovozero tundra. Climbers were attracted by the Angvundaschorr peak, but no one managed to conquer it. Moreover, one of the ascents ended in the death of two experienced climbers. The comrades of the dead fled from the valley, leaving the corpses and all their equipment there. They could not clearly explain the shameful act. They talked about a feeling of wild horror that suddenly gripped them, about the silhouette of some creature flashing in a crevice of a rock ...
In the summer of 1965, the first unexplained case death of tourists. 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, we managed to find the last camp of tourists, where a tent, backpacks and eight pairs of torn boots were lying around. Then there were the remains of the owners of things, gnawed by foxes. The cause of death remained unexplained.
Another tragedy occurred a few years later. This time, 11 people died. The official investigation came to the conclusion about mass mushroom poisoning.
Summer 2017
In the Lovozero district, not far from Seydozero, tourists discovered two abandoned tents in a couple of days. Things were scattered around: clothes, shoes, bowlers, bowls. There were no people.
A torn tent was found in the area of the Seyduai stream near Seydozero. 50 meters from the main trail. Inside is a sleeping bag, some clothes in the form of a jacket, pants, also dishes and shoes.
A second tent was found a little earlier in the same area: things, food, about two people and no signs of people.
August marked 24 years since the mysterious death in the mountains of the Irkutsk region of six tourists from Petropavlovsk - Victoria, Denis, Alexander, Timur, Tatyana and their experienced leader Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina. According to Sputnik, the tragedy occurred in the Khamar-Daban mountains, the oldest massif on the planet, encircling Lake Baikal from the south. Only one participant of the campaign remained alive then - 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 goes off scale. From reliable it can be noted that it was here that for almost half a century a large pulp and paper mill smoked, which closed after a series of gloomy forecasts of environmentalists that stretched for decades. Here, according to the weather station, up to 800 earthquakes per year are recorded. Around the bonfires, legends are told here about a bigfoot walking through the local forests. In television programs from the category of incredible facts, they talk about alien aliens landing somewhere nearby. It seems that the more conversations, the less chance to make out - how much truth is in everything, and how much is fiction.
The story about the death of a group of Petropavlovsk tourists who conquered local peaks in August 1993 is an absolute truth. People who knew them closely are still uncomfortable with the memories of this tragedy. A couple of years later, a hundred meters from the ill-fated place, a memorial obelisk with the names of those who did not return from the mountains will be erected here by the friends of the victims. Well, the cause of their mysterious death is still being investigated ...
Hello from Dyatlov
In conversations about this story, analogies very 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 sky-high (just over a thousand meters), but the site was classified as of increased complexity. The group of "Dyatlovites" consisted of 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 began to be found in the snow, with injuries to internal and external organs. Many did not have outerwear. The tent was cut from the inside, personal belongings were left behind. It seemed that the tourists were very frightened and left the tent in a hurry. Official version death - an elemental force that people were not able to overcome. Death was due to massive frostbite.
However, over the decades, this story has acquired many legends, mysteries, versions - where the elements, the human factor, the anthropogenic factor, and even foreign spies and mysterious aliens from outer space were to blame. A book was written about this case, a film was made and a number of television programs were made.
The tragedy that happened on August 5, 1993 is not pampered with such increased attention, even in the homeland of the victims - in Petropavlovsk - few have heard of it, although there are no less mystics in this story.
They 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, a 41-year-old helmsman of the Petropavlovsk tourist club "Azimut", which operated at the pedagogical school, also participated in them. In the early 90s, there were several groups of people in Petropavlovsk who were fond of and engaged in tourism. But the brightest leader was and remains precisely Lyudmila Ivanovna Korovina.
The head of the tourist club "Azimut" Lyudmila Korovina / Photo: ru.sputniknews.kz
One of her students at that time was Evgeny Olkhovsky, a researcher of those events, through whose efforts this story was not forgotten. He recalls how out of them - young and idle hooligans - being in the club made real people.
She knew how to rally everyone, make a team. I believed in people, I believed in people. She could make a person become who he really is. Under her mentorship, each of us managed to maximize our abilities, grow in all areas of life. Thanks to her, how many people have become excellent teachers, athletes, created families, learned to play the guitar, draw, become stronger, bolder, more correct! We were all like adopted children to her, she was worried about everyone, sent guys and met from the army, - Evgeny recalls.
Lyudmila Ivanovna was a master of sports of international class in hiking. The geography of campaigns expanded every year - Western Tien Shan, Western Sayan, Northern Urals, Subpolar Urals, Mountain Shoria, Karakum, Altai. Not for the first time in August of the 93rd she went to Khamar-Daban ...
In August 1993, Eugene was also supposed to go on a campaign with a group to Khamar-Daban. There was a route of the third category of complexity. But the circumstances turned out differently: “On the campaign,” he recalls, “then I was preparing in detail - I wanted to get a discharge. But a month and a half before departure, I found out that I would have to go to the construction team. When I was already there, I was also“ buried ”, they called my mother constantly. Maybe fate. But rather I think - if I were there, everything would have turned out differently ... ".
death halt
So, in early August of the 93rd, a group of seven people (already quite experienced tourists aged from 17 to 20 years old) led by Lyudmila Korovina went to the mountains from their starting point - the village of Murino. By the way, at the same time, another group of our tourists traveled along a different route in the same region, 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, the Korovina group managed to overcome a significant part of its path - about 70 km. On August 4, the group arranges a halt at the top of 2300 m. Their last halt ... It is noted that this place is a completely bare part of the mountains, it is even compared with Martian landscapes - there is practically no vegetation and living creatures are almost never found, only stones, grass and wind. The group spent the night at this place. The weather stubbornly hindered the group of travelers day and night. Contrary to quite optimistic forecasts, the Mongolian cyclone then came to the Irkutsk region - from August 3, it rained with snow around the clock.
Why did a group of tourists stop at such an open, windy place? From that moment on, history begins to acquire legends and conjectures. 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 clear distance. In such conditions, it was already possible to 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 were firewood, a place to rest. It took only 30 minutes to get 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 was in reality was 100 meters. In the mountains, this is not such a small distance as it might seem. Finally, it is worth considering the factor that the tourists were so tired and cold that they decided to stop for a while.
By the way, this place already had a bad reputation - here on August 3, 1914, he died in a snow blizzard. famous explorer A. P. Detishchev ...
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 subsequently did not dazzle with a large number of details. One day, Valentina remarked briefly and clearly: "Do you think I want to remember this nightmare? I had to leave, change my whole life. I don't want to remember this."
If we collect the memories of different people who happened to hear the girl's story about what happened, we get the following picture.
... On the night of August 4-5, the weather was bad - a thunderstorm thundered, a hurricane raged below so strong that it felled trees ... In the morning, at 11 o'clock, Alexander, the oldest and strongest of the guys, became ill. He fell. Nose, mouth and ears were bleeding. 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 instructs the other guys to try to go down to the edge of the forest zone. Appointed Denis as the senior. But - after a while, two girls fall at once. They begin to ride, tear their clothes, grab their throats. Timur fell after them with similar symptoms. Valentina stayed alone with Denis. He suggests - grab the most necessary things from the backpacks and run downstairs. Valentina bent down for a backpack to pull out a sleeping bag. When the girl raised her head, Denis was already lying on the ground. Grabbing her sleeping bag, Valentina ran downstairs. She spent the night under a rock, on the edge of the forest zone. Trees fell nearby like matches. The next morning the girl got back up - Lyudmila Ivanovna was still alive, but - on her last legs. She showed me how and where to go."
Here is how the events that happened are described from the words of the surviving girl in the report on search and rescue and transportation operations: “It is difficult to explain what happened in the mountains - in front of V.U. "Denis began to hide behind the stones and run away, Tatyana hit her head against the stones, Victoria and Timur probably went crazy. Lyudmila Ivanovna died of a heart attack."
The alleged place of death of tourists / Photo: ru.sputniknews.kz
survivor
After collecting food and taking a card in the things of the leader, on August 6, Valentina set off in search of salvation. The search dragged on for three days.
The girl went down to the Anigta River, where she spent the night of August 7th. The next day, she stumbled upon an abandoned relay tower at an altitude of 2310 meters, where she spent another night all alone. The next morning, noticing the poles going down, the tourist, in the hope that they would lead her to the people, set off on the road. However, the houses to which the wires were laid 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 the search 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 wandering tourists signify their presence. At that time, a group of tourists from Kyiv were rafting down the river, and they picked up the girl. Even in this case, Valentina is extremely lucky - they say that there are rarely people in those places ...
At first, the girl did not talk to the tourists who saved her - she was in severe shock, she was exhausted. As a result, either as she returned "to life", or because of the unwillingness (or prohibition) of the rescuers to search for the dead tourists ... they were found only on August 26.
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 dead were dressed in thin tights, while three were barefoot. The leader lay on top of Alexander.
What happened on the plateau? Why did the hikers take off their shoes when freezing? Why did the woman lay down on the dead guy? Why didn't anyone use sleeping bags? All these questions remain unanswered.
The dead were buried only a month later - our delegates for more than two weeks sought the right to take the dead to their native land ...
... The bodies were taken out by helicopter. The head of the Poisk search team, lawyer Nikolai Fedorov, who at that time was in the rescue expedition group, 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. One feature that we were told by those who filmed the dead from the mountain was that the bodies lay in pairs, and at a decent distance from each other (40-50 meters), said Nikolai Fedorov. - The autopsy of the bodies was carried out in Ulan-Ude. According to the conclusion of experts, all 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 allowed suggests that someone wanted to "hush up" the story.
So, in the notes of the traveler Leonid Izmailov, Korovina's group seems 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, allegedly, was caused by unpredictable weather and the unprofessionalism of the leader. However, the average age of the participants in the campaign, even without taking into account the "leader", was 20 years. Everyone already had a certain number of solid sorties behind them, careful monitoring of their physical condition and nutrition was provided. A strict taboo against alcohol. All this excludes the possibility of blaming it on frivolity, physical unpreparedness.
They add color and drama to Valentina's stories in the description of 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 - was. According to some Irkutsk sources, they seem to be gone. There is an opinion that the rescuers knew about the death that had already occurred on August 10-12, and started searching a week later - someone says that bad weather allegedly interfered, someone - about solving financial issues ... Or maybe the rescuers were waiting for the end the action of certain poisonous substances?
Finally, why did the control and rescue service release groups when they entered their routes if it was known about the approaching strongest hurricane? The forensic medical examination of the dead is questioned and criticized (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 catch up with more fog than to dot it all.
Obviously, based on the symptoms described, hypothermia was only a concomitant factor, and not the root cause of the death of tourists.
Evgeny Olkhovsky does not believe in the version of hypothermia. According to him, such a professional as Lyudmila Ivanovna strictly monitored this so that the guys were provided with food and did not freeze.
At Korovina, people didn’t freeze at minus 50, but here on you ... .. I can rather believe in aliens, but in order for Korovina’s people to freeze, I went through a dozen trips with her, and I know what I’m talking about ... Perhaps there was ozone poisoning . 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.
Ozone poisoning is known to cause massive pulmonary edema and rupture of blood vessels. How lucky was it for Valentina and Lyudmila Ivanovna to survive under such conditions (until the next morning)? According to the researcher, the features of the organism in the first case, its fitness - in the second.
Passers-by in those places (only 1000 m below) write that they fell under the same rain as the dead group, and after that rain all the woolen clothes of the tourists simply spread in their hands, and everyone developed a severe allergy ...
Moreover, there are even suggestions that several more groups actually died in those days. Aleksey 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 clouding of mind with foam from the mouth ...
Livinsky also claims that when their group of rescuers was near the scene, no special logging was noticed. And according to Valentina, the hurricane dropped trees like matches. And again the question arises - why did the rescuers delay their search for so long, since the speech about bad weather is exaggerated? Also, according to Livinsky, the corpses of tourists were not at all eaten away by living creatures, 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 pulp and paper mill, it was inactive in those years.
At the campsites of the group, we were, to put it mildly, discouraged by the diet of the group. For dinner and breakfast, one can of canned meat 338 g and one can of fish 250 g were spent. I don’t know what side dish and how much, but there were clearly too few proteins in the diet for seven healthy tired people. The places for overnight stays were on the ridge much higher than the forest zone, and the group probably had problems with cooking, drying clothes, - says the rescuer Livinsky. - And then the pathologist conducting the examination in Ulan-Ude, openly said that there was no glucose in the tissues of the dead, in the liver and somewhere else. 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 poisonous substances in the tissues.
If people eat something that can lead to poisoning, then each body will react in its own way. Poisoning does not affect everyone equally. Then you have to eat something poisoned to such an extent that everyone dies, especially within half an hour. At the expense of hypothermia, it is also unclear, the air temperature could not drop sharply to 5 or 10 degrees below zero. Our assumption is that there was an anticyclone and there was a strong wind. Magnetic fluctuations began, huge air currents set in motion, which created infrasound, and it could affect the psyche. Separate rocks under a strong wind can become an infrasonic generator of enormous power, which causes a state of panic, unaccountable horror in a person. According to the girl who survived, her friends behaved uneasily, her speech was inconsistent, says Nikolai Fedorov, a member of the search group.
It is most often mentioned that tourists could develop vegetovascular dystonia (VSD). This is almost directly indicated by the fact that they tried to undress - in the case of attacks of VVD, it may seem that the clothes are suffocating. However, it was too late to cope with the symptoms - as a result, numerous hemorrhages.
A tragedy could also have happened for man-made reasons, given the large number of closed zones on Baikal. And the rescuers got out to help, having already waited for the emissions to disperse ...
In general, versions, secrets, riddles and - there are much more questions than answers ...
By the way, the club "Azimuth" did not last long after the tragedy - 3-4 years, its old-timers say - there was no worthy replacement for Lyudmila Ivanovna ...
Every year, publications about the death of climbers appear in the media. 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 have paid sufficient attention to what happened. Not so long ago, even the film "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass" was released. And few people know about the mysterious death of six climbers that occurred in Buryatia at the Khamar-Daban pass.
In August 1993 to Irkutsk from Kazakhstan railway a group of tourists of seven people arrived in order to go to the Khamar-Daban ridge. Weather forecasters promised suitable weather for climbing, and the group went to the mountains. It consisted of three boys, three girls and 41-year-old leader Lyudmila Korovina, who had the title of master of sports in hiking. The Khamar-Daban ridge does not shake with its height. The most high point- 2 396 meters. Located in ledges, with pointed peaks and ridges, the ridge is one of the oldest mountains our planet. These Beautiful places visited annually by thousands of tourists. 
Nothing foreshadowed trouble. The group advanced 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 Golets Yagelny (2204m) and Tritrans (2310m). Weather forecasters, however, did not guess. For several days in a row it snowed with rain and the wind blew. What made the experienced leader set up camp on the bare part of the mountain, one can only guess. Just four kilometers down the slope grew a forest, in which one could hide from the weather and build a fire. 
Approximately at 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 poured out of his ears and foam came out of his mouth. He died just a few minutes later. All members of the group were horrified. Something strange began to happen. Fell, losing consciousness, the leader of the group. A mass hysteria ensued. The young man, whose name was Denis, ran and hid behind the stones, one of the girls (Tatiana) beat her head against the stones. Two girls fell to the ground and began to tear their clothes and grab their throats with their hands. After a while, another young man fell. 
The remaining guy and girl decide to take only the most necessary things with them and go downstairs. While the girl puts extra things out of her backpack, the guy with the same symptoms falls to the ground. The girl, seized with fear, runs down, but does not reach the forest. She sees hurricane-force winds breaking trees and knocking them to the ground. Hiding under a large stone, the girl spends a sleepless night, and in the morning decides to return to the camp. Rising, Valentina found that all the participants in the campaign were dead. And I decided to look for people. Noticing the old repeater 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 housing, Valentina went, focusing on the electric wires. And she came to the houses, but they were abandoned. Two days later, she was found, barely alive, near the Snezhnaya River by a group of 
tourists from Kyiv. Valentina was very lucky - people rarely visited those places. The dead were taken out by helicopter. The bodies were autopsied in Ulan-Ude. According to the conclusion, all died from hypothermia. The only survivor, Valentina Utochenko, does not like to remember what happened. Overpowering herself, she said that it all started with the death of Alexander, the strongest and strongest guy in the group. According to her, he had a heart attack, 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 down and leave her with the deceased. And then 
died herself. And then the mass hysteria began. Seeing how the members of the group fall to the ground one by one, 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 is it written in the conclusion given by the doctors of Ulan-Ude that all members of the group died as a result of hypothermia? And why did they fall one after another in a short space of time, foaming at the mouth and bleeding 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 believes that as a result of a strong wind and a specific terrain, an infrasonic wave was formed, which killed the tourists. 
It is also surprising that there were no warm clothes on the bodies of the dead. They were wearing only light tights. And three of the dead were found barefoot at all. Why? What made them, dying of hypothermia, take off their outer clothing? There are many questions. There are just no answers. The death of six people at the Khamar-Daban pass has remained an unsolved mystery ....
