Deserted, inaccessible mountains keep many secrets. And many legends connected with these natural objects excite the minds of people. The strange disappearances of lonely travelers and entire groups, collective visual and auditory hallucinations, flights over the mountain ranges of UFOs - all this is inexplicable, scary, and that is why it is so attractive.
Thousands of mountain hikers flock to the most inaccessible cliffs every year, and many pay with their lives. However, the number of those wishing to comprehend the secrets of the mountains is not decreasing, and who knows, maybe someday people will be able to shed light on at least a small part of the ancient legends and mysterious events of recent times that took place somewhere among the rocks.
Hiking in the mountains is always associated with risk, where often the fate of climbers or mountain tourists hangs literally in the balance. Perhaps it is the feeling of fear and tension that allows people to see what, in a calm environment, is surrounded by an invisible field?
Mountaineers' legends often relate to people who left their lives in the mountains. And the most common of them is the legend of the Black Climber, in which there are quite a few variations, but its essence is approximately the same. They say that once a pair of climbers fell off a cliff. Miraculously, one of the fallen ones managed to hold onto the ledge, and when his strength began to leave, he either let go, or cut the safety rope of the second comrade. The body of the deceased was never found. However, since then, the ghost of the deceased wanders in the mountains, and looks into the tents of sleeping people, trying to find a friend who betrayed him. Moreover, it is believed that the ghost appears before any accident, so in no case should you look into his eyes.
It is possible that this is another story - a horror story. However, many trustworthy climbers tell of strange experiences that happened to them. For example, Olga Tomashevskaya, a Belarusian mountaineer, began collecting information about the Black climber ever since she once ascended (the sun was just at its zenith), she saw that she was casting two shadows. But the strangest thing was that one of the shadows was without a backpack!
Another witness of an unusual phenomenon, an experienced climber Anatoly Kremen at first himself liked to frighten beginners with such a bike, but one night in the Caucasus mountains he slept in the open air and suddenly woke up from some kind of jolt. A strange dark figure stood next to the guy. The young man wanted to jump up, but could not - he seemed to be paralyzed, to shout - also failed. It was then that Anatoly remembered the legend of the Black Climber, and a flash of lightning flashed in his brain that in no case should one meet his gaze. Anatoly began to pray silently and the black silhouette disappeared.
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In order not to frighten his friends, Anatoly did not tell them anything, the group successfully conquered the intended height and returned back. However, after a while they learned that a few hours after their descent, an avalanche had passed along their route.
Igor Avelichev, a tourism instructor and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, in 1987 saw a man dressed in all black on one of the rocks, who hovered over the rock for some time, and then disappeared.
Similar legends, but associated with a female ghost, the Mountain Maiden, are also sometimes confirmed by eyewitness stories. According to legend, the ghost of a girl appears on the most difficult sections of the passes, and those who see the ghost are better off going the other way.
The ghost of a girl in white was mentioned even under Peter I, when the first exploration work was carried out to find minerals. Miners told that in places protected by the Mountain Maiden people died under the most ridiculous circumstances, for example, a person could drown in a shallow river or fall under a falling tree …
One of the winterers described how in 1974, during a blizzard on Elbrus, he somehow met a woman in strange luminous clothes who silently looked at him, and only a girl from the group who came up in time brought the man out of the state of strange "hypnosis." The girl herself did not see anyone. The next day, the winterer found the place where the ghost met him. The tracks ended three steps from the cliff …
By the way, in those mountainous areas where in 1942 there were "lands" of the Nazi alpinist division "Edelweiss", people still hear German speech and the steps of people. Some even saw ghostly figures.
The shape of the mountains also relates to the sad statistics of accidents. The pyramidal mountains are especially notorious among rock lovers, on which there are too many tragedies, even among experienced groups. According to yogis, triangular rocks collect negative energy, which is why they so often require sacrifices. So, in 1978, experienced German climbers died, who conquered a small peak of the Caucasus. And four years later, a similar incident occurred in Altai. What these two tragedies have in common is that the mountains that the groups that never returned were pyramidal in shape.
Often, mountains that often collect tribute from human lives bear ominous names that have been assigned to them since time immemorial. Remember at least Kholat-Syakhyl, "the mountain of the dead", where the unfortunate group of Dyatlov found its death, or the "mountain-killer" - Kalajaki, which is located in Australia.
According to aboriginal legends, a highly developed alien civilization is hidden from human eyes inside the mountain, and it is the "aliens" who are involved in the mysterious disappearances of people on the mountain slopes. The first recorded disappearances of a person on the mountain date back to 1877; subsequently, this list was constantly expanding. At the beginning of the last century, two cavers disappeared here again, and then the policemen who went in search of them.
In an effort to unravel the riddle of the mountain, Czech explorer Ivan Makerle created an expedition to explore this mysterious place. The members of the expedition managed to find out that Mount Kalajaki is, in fact, a huge "sieve", with countless passes and failures, where it is easy for a person to get lost. However, on the very first night on the slope of the mountain, people witnessed an incomprehensible case when they all heard the falling of stones and the sounds of human steps, but no one approached the tent, but the lantern illuminated an incomprehensible dark mass hanging among the bushes and trees, which soon disappeared … What it was - for the members of the expedition remained a mystery.
The only thing that can be said about this is that the mountains still do not like strangers, and are not going to reveal their age-old secrets to everyone they meet.