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 cause of the tragedy was both the mistakes and incompetence of the group leader. But the facts say the opposite!

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

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

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

Greetings from Dyatlov

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

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

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

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

The tragedy that happened on August 5, 1993 is not pampered with such 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.

We were a real family ...

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

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 has not been forgotten. He recalls how of them - young and hooligans hanging out from idleness - being in the club made real people.

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

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

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

Deadly halt

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

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

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

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

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

What I wanted to forget

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

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

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

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

Estimated place of death of tourists / Photo: ru.sputniknews.kz

Survivor

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

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

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

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

The truth that no one will tell ...

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

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

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

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

We were all gathered and in a team of six people were sent to the scene. The task was to find the bodies of the dead. When we arrived, the bodies were already prepared. One feature that those who filmed the dead from the mountain told us was that the bodies lay in pairs, and at a decent distance from each other (40-50 meters), said Nikolai Fedorov. - The autopsies were carried out in Ulan-Ude. According to experts, everyone died from hypothermia….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the group's campsites, we were, to put it mildly, discouraged by the group's food ration. 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 the side dish was and how much, but there was clearly too little protein in the diet for seven healthy, tired people. The places where they spent the night were on the ridge much higher than the forest zone, and the group must have had problems with cooking and drying clothes, ”says rescuer Livinsky. - And then the pathologist conducting the examination in Ulan-Ude openly said that glucose is completely absent in the tissues of the dead, in the liver and elsewhere. Those syndromes that were observed in the group fully correspond to hypothermia plus complete exhaustion of the body.

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

If people have eaten something that can lead to poisoning, then each organism will react in its own way. Poisoning cannot affect everyone equally. Then it is necessary to eat something poisoned to such an extent that everyone will die, 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 vibrations began, huge air currents set in motion, which created infrasound, and it could affect the psyche. Individual rocks under a strong wind can become an infrasonic generator of enormous power, which causes a person to experience a state of panic, unaccountable horror. According to the girl who survived, her friends were restless, their speech was inconsistent, says Nikolai Fedorov, a member of the search group.

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

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

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

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

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 cause of the tragedy was both the mistakes and incompetence of the group leader. But the facts say the opposite!

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

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