Dyatlov Pass incident

The Dyatlov group

The group led by Igor Dyatlov was formed for a ski trek across the northern Urals. The group consisted of eight men and two women, most of them were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute: Igor Dyatlov, 23 Zinaida Kolmogorova, 22 Ludmila Dubinina, 21 Alexander Kolevatov, 25 Ruste...

The deserted camp

Since Dyatlov was suppose to send a telegram to their sport club as soon as the group would return to Vizhai, so after February 12 relatives of the travellers demanded a search and rescue operation in the pass. On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned and badly damaged tent on Kholat Sy...

The mystery

The investigators gathered the informations that would suggest that a simple avalanche would be the simplest explanation. Although the later autopsies of the bodies revealed some puzzling evidence: - six of the people died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries (Thibeaux-Brignolles had major sk...

The avalanche

Basic explanation for the incident is avalanche. The weather was poor, it was snowing, there was strong wind. Facts that are supporting the theory: - this would explain why they were running away from the tent in panic, but it doesn’t explain why would they cut the tent from within, ...

Secret weapons tests

The secret weapons tests theory is based on assumption that some unknown kind of weapon would cause the wounds and make the rest of the group runaway. Facts that are supporting the theory: - the radioactive contamination is strange fact. /lista Facts that oppose the theory:...

UFO attack

Since all the logical explanations failed the theory of UFO attack have started. Facts that are supporting the theory: - this would explain why they were running away from the tent in panic, but it doesn’t explain why would they cut the tent from within, - the group of witnesses al...

Dead Mountain / Dead Mountain - The Dyatlov Pass Incident

2020, Russia

In 1959, KGB Major Oleg Kostin is sent to Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains to investigate the death of a group of students that went on a ski hike into the wilderness.

Kholat

2015, Poland

On the night of 2nd February 1959, high in the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union, 9 students died in unknown circumstances. Years later, this mystery is still puzzling the people around the world - what happened on Dyatlov Pass?