Among the mistery stories that I have heard in my life, I had always preference for the ones that include graphic material. I have spoken before about the story of Carla Moran/Doris Bither (the story that inspired "The Entitiy"). Maybe it is this the reason why I find the Dyatlov incident so fascinating. Let me show you some photos and after we will talk about the story (and the legend) of what happened to the Dyatlov expedition.
It was 1959, when a group of young students from the Ural Politechnical University made a cross-country skiing expediton at the Ural mountains, wishing to arrive to the Otorten Mount (Отортен).
The groups arrives by train to Ivdel (Ивдель), in the centre of the Sverdlovsk Oblast region on January 25th. By truck they get to Vizhai (Вижай), the last inhabited town. The 27th they begin their way to Otorten.
The members of the expedition are Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов), the oldest and chief, who has given name to the incident, Zinaida Kolmogorova (Зинаида Колмогорова), Lyudmila Dubinina (Людмила Дубинина), Alexander Kolevatov (Александр Колеватов), Rustem Slobodin (Рустем Слободин), Georgyi Krivonischenko (Георгий Кривонищенко), Yuri Doroshenko (Юрий Дорошенко), Nicolas Thibeaux-Brignollel (Николай Тибо-Бриньоль), Alexander Zolotarev (Александр Золотарев) and Yuri Yudin (Юрий Юдин).
Like in old good stories, one of them gets ill. Yuri Yudin is the lucky who gets ill the 28th and can not go on with the rest, waiting the others to come back.
On January the 31st, still 10km from their destination, at the hill called Kholat Syakhl ("Horror Mount" in Mansi Language). They decide to camp for the night at that place. Never again they will be seen alive.
When the rescue team arrives to the camp, ttroben que les tendehey find that the tents have been torn from the inside, just like if the people who were sleeping there have escaped from them without even time to open the zippers.
The first bodies are found naked (only with the underwear) some meters from the tents. They have died of hypothermia due to the temperatures of 30 degrees under zero.
This was the official version. But it is said that another group of corpses was found several months later, when the snow melted, 5 meters under the ground, with a little more clothes on them, but yet not enough to the cold of the Urals . Appearently without signs of violence, but the autopsy showed that the internal organs were totally wrecked. And even more strange, one of the bodies, of one of the girls, was missing the tongue.
At the camp are found several photographic cameras, and in them, the photos that the group had been taking during their journey. The photos that you have seen before these text are some of them.
And these are some of the photos taken by the rescue team.
Despite what we belief that really happened to them, and why the bodies were found that way, there is two aspects that I find really interesting: in the first place, the impact that always have the pictures taken of people a short time before their dead (this is probably because it reminds us of how weak is the human life); in the second place, obviously, it is to imagine what could have forced these university students to get out of their tents almost nude or barely dressed, at temperatures of 30 degrees under zero, and why the did not had even time to open the zipper of the tents...
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