This chilling story has been living for almost 60 years in a row. On February 2, 1959, a group of tourists from Sverdlovsk died on the slope of height 1079. People froze to death near the abandoned tent, while many were seriously injured and were practically naked.
The investigation was carried out with gross violations, although the case had an all-Union resonance. Therefore, years later, many began to say that the real criminal case was replaced. And what was published in the public domain was specially falsified.
This tragedy became widely known only in the 90s of the last century. The glasnost and perestroika that began then literally threw out tons of different documents from various archives. Among them were the materials of this criminal case.
I will try, very briefly, to tell you about a fact to which none of the researchers has paid attention yet. Although, as it seems to me, it is in it that the answer to the question is found: "because of what the tourists left the tent, escaping from it naked and barefoot." Why did they hesitate to return for so long, thereby dooming themselves to a painful death. Perhaps this version is at odds with all my previous theories. But any version can be refuted. Moreover, the author himself can do it. Although I note that the topic of the tragedy at the Dyatlov pass I pretty much disliked. I am not interested in talking about the same thing, and I am not going to compete with fanatics from the Dyatlov Pass adepts. Most likely, I write all this exclusively for myself. And I absolutely do not care what others think about it. Moreover, it is not interesting whether it will be published. Never mind…
It is possible that this article will be the final one in the topic of my research on the tragedy of the mountain of the dead. I do not plan a continuation, at least in the near future.
Tent
The tent was found already on February 28, 1959. The criminal case contains: "Protocol on the discovery of the parking place of a group of tourists comrade Dyatlov." The document is confirmed by the signatures of Prosecutor Tempalov and two UPI students Maslennikov and Brusnitsyn. There is not even one word in the document that the tent was cut from the inside. How they will then write on all the pages of this criminal case. Moreover, from the protocol of the interview of the witness Maslennikov, we learn that the things in the tent are well preserved. And next to the tent lay the warm clothes of tourists. A flashlight was even found on the slope of the tent itself. By the way, the same Maslennikov argued that people were not thrown out of the tent by the wind, since they did not roll down the mountainside, but descended from it on their own feet. Maslennikov noted that he saw how the tent was turned after inspection and dragged to the helipad.
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Now a question. If the tent was cut, then where did the snow go, which would have got there ?! And under this snow, hardly anyone would have seen at least some things. In addition, the snow would be well packed in a month. Therefore, it was possible to inspect the tent only after removing all the snow and ice from there. The inspection report does not say more than one word about this.
Maslennikov claimed that Tempalov had inspected the tent. Ostensibly, Maslennikov himself did not take part in this. Then where did these huge cuts come from in the tent?
I think that the fabric of the tent was cut from the inside by the prosecutor himself. So that then you could see everything there well. The partially shabby tent was damaged during transportation. And the main thing. If all people got out of the tent through the cuts, how did the warm clothes and socks that were lying at the entrance end up there?
What prompted people to flee the tent?
Fight. It was the conflict situation that made people flee from the tent. They got out through her entrance, but fled in a hurry. Throwing things that they didn't even have time to put on. They did not roll down the mountain, as there was no strong wind at that moment. They went down and ran away from the tent.
All the while they fought the frost below, they watched the mountainside. At the same time, they were mortally afraid of who was there. The situation could have been aggravated by poisoning with surrogate alcohol. Can be obtained in exchange from Mansi shamans. If there were ritual drinks, then the poisoning could be accompanied by the strongest hallucinations. Perhaps in the beginning, even, there was partial blindness and disorientation.
One way or another, but people could not survive in the cold. The hallucinations ended with the arrival of morning, but the tourists no longer had the strength to survive. I think that former Sergeant VV Beniamin, who became the hero of one of the programs of the show "Actually", was telling the truth. He really took the Dyatlovites to the Mansi plague named Andrei. And he treated the students to a very specific potion. Maybe the exchange happened by accident. Now this cannot be verified. But the fact remains. A group of adults and trained people fled from the ghosts that came to life in their imaginations. Nine human souls forever remained on the slope of a gloomy mountain, among the snow, ice and cold.
Valentin Degterev
