Dyatlov Pass Part 2

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Background:

Part 2 of our Special on Dyatlov Pass: On January 27, 1959,
a group of outdoor enthusiasts, known as "tourists" in Russia,
consisting of seven men and two women, mostly students and
graduates of the Ural Polytechnical Institute (which is now the
Ural Federal University) left the village of Vizhay in the
northern Ural Mountains on a two-week ski trek, through a region
called Sverdlovsk Oblast, the "gateway to Siberia" in
Russia. In Russia a "tourist" is a serious outdoorsman. The
goal was to reach Otorten Mountain at the end of their
journey. Their planned route would rank as a "Category
III," the most difficult classification for a hiking expedition
in winter, which if successful, would qualify them as "Masters of
Sport." On February 1st as they started to move through a
mountain pass on their last leg of the trip, bad weather and
decreasing visibility forced them off course, and the group
decided to make camp on the eastern slope of a small mountain
called Kholat Syakhl by the indigenous Mansi peoples, which
translates to "Dead Mountain" due to the area's lack of wild
game. Sometime during the night of February 2nd, the group
suffered an unimaginably terrifying ordeal, sealing their
fate. When they hadn't been heard from by February 20th, a
search party was formed to look for the missing youths. On
February 26th the search party reached their camp and what they
found would bring more questions than answers. It appeared
as though something had scared the hikers so badly, that they
panicked and ripped a hole in the side of their tent in order to
escape, shoeless, into - 20º F (-29º C) snowfall. It was
determined by Soviet authorities that the group had met with a
"compelling unknown force" causing them all to flee and
ultimately die of exposure with some also suffering significant
internal injuries such as broken ribs and fractured skulls.
There have since been many theories put forth as to what this
force actually was, but we may never know what was so horrific
that it caused this group of experienced adventurers to take
leave of their senses and take their chances in the deadly
wilderness. Following the incident, the mountain pass was
named "Dyatlov Pass" in honor of the group's leader, Igor
Dyatlov.

Tonight's Quote:

"An unknown compelling force should be considered the cause of
the hiker's deaths." - Lev Ivanov, Lead Prosecutor, Dyatlov Pass
Incident

Show Links:

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Archive of a very comprehensive website about the whole Dyatlov
story Supplemental documentation and analysis of the incident
Dyatlov Pass on Wiki Terrific archive of all the photos from the
group, in English and Russian Forum on the Dyatlov incident - in
Russian - you'll need a browser that can translate Donnie
Eichar's "Authors at Google" interview about his book, "Dead
Mountain" Book Review of "Dead Mountain" Song: Pixies "Wave of
Mutilation" from the album, "Doolittle" YouTube vid about Dyatlov
- text pulled from Wiki entry but has good photos Interesting
story about a family living isolated for 40 years in Siberia
Russian Yeti at Dyatlov? Snowboarder Bigfoot Incident Nazi UFO's
Foo Fighters More on the Foo Fighters Even more on Foo Fighting
The Actual Foo Fighters (Because you were expecting that
right?)

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Credits:

Episode 024 - "Dyatlov Pass (Part 2)" Produced by Scott Philbrook
& Forrest Burgess; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research
Assistance by Tess Pfeifle. Copyright Scott Philbrook &
Forrest Burgess 2015, All Rights Reserved.