In February 1959, search and rescue personnel in the northern part of the Ural Mountains in the Otolten Mountains"Mountain of Death", the bodies of 9 young people were unexpectedly found. In the camera they left behind, the search and rescue personnel found a **, which showed a glowing unidentified object passing by in the sky, and the scene was extremely eerie.
What is puzzling is that there are traces of radioactive materials on the clothes of the young people, and there are no traces of a fight at the scene, but a series of barefoot walking footprints. For decades, there have been many theories about the truth of this incident, and no one has been able to decipher the strange phenomenon in it.
Even before 2020, the mysterious death of the nine youths was classified as a top-secret file by the Soviet authorities, making the mystery even more confusing. So, what exactly did these youths experience in the Urals?
And how do their souls coexist with the mountains?
Dyatlov: Brave to the Unknown At the beginning of 1959, a student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute in the Soviet Union named Igor Dyatrov, determined to challenge the highest level of mountaineers, applied for a certificate of climbing **, which symbolizes the highest honor.
He loves the outdoors and has a lot of experience climbing various peaks, but this expedition is a real challenge for him and his team, an adventure that never returns.
In order to achieve his goal, he decided to take on the Ortorten Mountains in the northern part of the Ural Mountains for a difficult 14-day journey. The Urals, the east-west mountain range, are a mecca for mountaineers to explore.
However, Mount Ortorten also has another name"Mountain of Death", because"Ottolten"It means in the Mansi language"Don't go there"。Still, Dyatlov, who was only 20 years old at the time, was enthusiastic about such a challenge.
So, through the recruitment of the Mountaineering Association of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, he led a mountaineering team of 9 members to move forward towards the goal.
A team of the college's mountaineering backbones, they are experienced and fully armed, and they are equipped with living equipment, cameras, maps, and diaries. On 25 January, they arrived by train in Yvejelli, the nearest town to Mount Ortorten, and then rushed to the nearby village of Vegay.
On January 27, they set out from Vegai and advanced to their destination.
At the beginning of the expedition, the team encountered an accident: Yuri Yudin withdrew from the expedition due to rheumatism due to unbearable knee pain. His departure temporarily affected the team, but also introduced new powers to them.
Semyon Zorotarov, a member of the team from the North Caucasus, joined them. Despite his age, he quickly developed strong friendships with his team members.
Before the departure, the team and the school's mountaineering association had reached an agreement: around February 12, they would complete the climbing mission and return to Vegayi. At that time, Dyatlov will send a telegram reporting on their climbing.
Before Yudin left, Dyatlov promised to send him a telegram as well, asking him to meet him at Yvjelli and then return with him.
However, the telegram from the mountaineer Dyatlov was delayed, and everyone underestimated the danger of the climb. The emergency rescue operation began on 16 February, four days after the agreed return time, and the mysterious deaths of nine young people were terrifying.
Anxious and anxious as families anxiously inquire about the school's children's whereabouts, and the school is trying to get the latest news from Yudin, anxiety and unease are spreading. On February 20, the search and rescue team of the school's mountaineering association rushed to the Ortolten Mountain to carry out a rescue operation, and in the following days, various personnel, including the local mountain search and rescue team and police, also joined the search and rescue, and the number of search and rescue personnel reached more than 2,000 people.
In order to expand the scope of search and rescue, the local government also sent reconnaissance planes to conduct an all-round search.
On 26 February, search and rescue teams found the camp and tent left behind by the missing mountaineering team on Mount Horatshafer, about 5 kilometres from the summit of Mount Ortorten.
After careful searching, they found a large hole in the tent, and all the equipment of the climbers was buried in the tent, but no team members were found in the tent.
Confusingly, the large hole in the tent was cut inside the tent, while outside the tent were rows of footprints wearing only socks and even walking barefoot, which were about 500 meters long, and the end of the footprints was a forest on the other side of the hillside.
Tents cut inside, unshoed footprints, and paths leading to the woods are all ways for climbers to survive dangerous situations such as avalanches. However, no signs of avalanches were found at the site, and the tents and footprints of the climbers were intact.
This series of phenomena puzzled the search and rescue personnel, because why did these experienced mountaineers flee in a hurry without even having time to put on their shoes? They were trying to find the answer, when an important clue was found in the tent - the team leader Dyatlov's mountaineering diary and camera film.
After analyzing various clues, the search and rescue personnel concluded that the mountaineers had been on track until February 1, but a sudden snowstorm caused them to deviate from their intended route and eventually reached the Horat Chafort Mountain.
As it gets dark, they plan to pitch a tent in the forest. However, due to the obstruction of tree branches and snow, they had to set up tents on the gentle slopes at the edge of the forest.
The mountaineering diary came to an abrupt end after that day. Although no more concrete leads have been obtained, the search and rescue efforts are still ongoing. On March 2, the remains of two men, Yuri Grivonishchenko and Yuri Dlochenko, were found under a huge pine tree at the edge of the forest.
When they were found, both were naked**, dressed only**, with some burns and abrasions on their bodies, and their bodies lay neatly under a pine tree. On the pine trees beside them, traces of climbing and broken branches can be clearly seen, as well as traces of bonfires that were once lit.
Between 3 and 5 March, the bodies of Dyatlov, Zinaïda Kolmogolova and Lystam Slobertin were found on the path between the woods and the camp, at distances of 300 metres, 630 metres and 480 metres, respectively.
Inexplicably, when their remains were found, their heads were all facing in the direction of the tent. Of particular note is that Slobertin had varying degrees of damage on both sides of his skull.
After the medical examiner's evaluation, the medical examiner concluded that the cause of death of the five team members was "hypothermia", that is, they were frozen to death. As for the injuries to Slobertin's skull, the medical examiner believes that it may have been caused by hitting a rock while people were confused in the extreme cold, or it could have been caused by blunt objects.
However, since no traces of outsiders' activities were found at the scene, the possibility of these team members being ** was basically ruled out.
In this investigation, the local ** has basically restored the possible scene at that time: when the team members were resting in the camp tent, they encountered some kind of unexpected situation, which may be a small avalanche, and the team members immediately took emergency measures and fled to the forest in a hurry.
However, by the time the team found that the danger alert had been lifted, their bodies were already rapidly hypothermic in the freezing environment. Two of the team members froze to death, and the other survivors took off the victims' clothes and tried to return to the camp, but the rest also froze to death on the way.
Although this inference is reasonable, after more than half a month of search and rescue, only 5 bodies were found. So, what about the remaining 4 team members who went to ** again?
In April 1959, as temperatures climbed, the snow began to melt on the mountains. Search and rescue crews found a pair of black sweatpants and a brown sweater near the forest, suggesting that the remaining victims may be buried there.
However, they dig down about 3After 5 meters, no remains were found, only some clothing and cut branches. The clothing belonged to the two victims under the cedar tree.
The search and rescue team then expanded the search area and eventually found female climbers Lyudmila Dobinina, Alexander Krevatov, Nikolai Chepobrinury, and Zorotaryv, who had joined the temporary, under a 4-metre depth of snow beside a stream 20 metres from the crater.
By analyzing the last positions of the four team members, search and rescue personnel speculated that they wanted to escape to the bottom of the mountain, but unfortunately fell in the ravine next to the stream. Coupled with the fact that Dobinina was wearing a brown sweater that Grivonishchenko had frozen to death in the forest, it is almost certain that after the two members of the team who were initially found were frozen to death, the remaining people acted separately, one tried to return to the tent, and the other tried to go down the mountain to call for help, but both failed and froze to death halfway through.
However, the results of the autopsies on the four newly discovered victims by the medical examiner made the whole incident creepy and terrifying.
The four team members did not die of hypothermia, but from fatal injuries sustained on their bodies. The fractures of Dobinina and Zorotarov caused bones to pierce their hearts and lungs, and they eventually lost blood to death, equivalent to being hit by a car for 80 kilometers and hours; Chepobrinius' skull was completely shattered, and Krevatov suffered a broken neck, and the wound appeared to have been caused by a fall from a height.
However, there are also surprising phenomena in Dobinina and Zorotarov: Dobinina's eye sockets, soft tissues on the bridge of the nose, upper lip, and tongue are all gone, and Zorotarov's eyeballs are gouged out; On their clothing, a large amount of radioactive material was detected.
In May 1959, the forensic medical examiner conducted a professional analysis of the bizarre scars of Dobinina and Zorotarov, and they found that the couple had bleeding in the heart muscle and chest cavity, but not in the soft tissues of the chest.
It may be that they were injured by the shock wave caused by the bomb when their lives were dying. However, the mystery and horror of the Dyatlov incident did not stop there, and the mystery of the incident deepened as the evidence inside the cameras of the mountaineers was revealed.
A total of 5 cameras were found in the tent of the mountaineering team and on the remains of Zorotarov. However, due to the fact that Zorotarov's camera was soaked in water for a long time, the negatives were damaged and could not be further explored.
Of the 34 mountaineering sheets, only 1 is anomalous, and the glowing object on the ** has sparked a lot of speculation. Locals claim to have seen the unidentified object in February. **It was taken in the 50s, and the shutter is only open when taking pictures, so it may be the result of unsuccessful imaging due to the shutter opening.
Although this theory is accepted by some experts, there are still many mysteries. It wasn't until the 90s that a British writer in his work "Dyatlov Pass" revealed the ** in the Zorotarov camera that officially declared that the "negatives were damaged", which sparked more discussion.
Although the search and rescue team found much evidence, the truth remains a mystery.
Mystery: Why did an experienced mountaineer die in a snowy mountain? When ** reported this strange incident, the superior immediately issued an order to "stop the investigation".
In August 1959, Soviet officials concluded the mysterious deaths of the nine youths, citing "irresistible forces." However, the families and friends of the victims questioned this, and they actively sought the help of ** and scholars, which made the Dyatlov incident more and more influential, and even now it is still hotly discussed.
But since the accident occurred in a snow-capped mountain that is inaccessible, there were no witnesses. The only dossier that explains the incident has been kept tightly sealed. Therefore, even after 60 years, there is still no explanation that is accepted by everyone.
1. Human ** says Some people believe that mountaineers are coerced to leave the camp and then ** in the woods, snow pits, etc. This view stems from a conspiracy theory that the KGB CIA may have killed for some kind of secrecy.
Another possibility is that the local indigenous people, the Mansi, punished the team members for trespassing in the restricted mountain area. In addition, some people believe that there is an internal ghost within the mountaineering team, and this internal ghost is Zorotarov, who joined the team temporarily.
2. The Unknown Mysterious Creature Killing Theory Some people have suggested that the tents of the team members were broken by wild wolves or bears, and even believed that the team members were killed by a kind of "Bigfoot".
According to this view, the team members encountered unknown and mysterious creatures.
The first theory is the theory of aliens and UFOs. Any unexplained mystery is inseparable from the existence of "aliens". The Dyatlov incident was no exception, and those unknown luminous objects are undoubtedly the best proof of UFO.
The second view is the accident theory. Some people believe that the team members did encounter a small avalanche, and escaped in a panic only to die of hypothermia; There are also people who believe that what happened to them was not a natural accident, but a man-made accident, probably because the Soviet Union officially tested a secret ** in the area, and the poor team members were killed by the shock wave caused by **.
The third theory is the theory of special natural phenomena. According to this view, rare natural phenomena in the mountains, such as ball lightning and infrasound, may have caused fluctuations in the gravitational field, which could lead to disasters for the team members.
However, regardless of the theory, there are many phenomena that cannot be explained. Therefore, only after all the relevant top-secret files are unsealed can we have a deeper understanding of the truth of the incident.