The Dyatlov Pass Incident
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- 2013
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Okay, I'm rolling.
My name is Holly King.
I'm a psychology student
at the University of Oregon.
In 2008, I saw a news report
about 30 elite scientists
that had gotten together
in a remote area of the
Ural Mountains in Russia.
They were trying to solve a mystery
that had baffled the world
for almost 50 years.
It had become known
as the Dyatlov Pass Incident
after a leader of an expedition
there in 1959 named Igor Dyatlov.
They failed,
but I was riveted by the story.
So when my favorite professor,
Dr. Kittles, assigned the class
a project on that very same incident,
I couldn't believe it.
I mentioned it to a buddy of mine,
Jensen, a film student here,
and he said that we should make a film.
So we applied for a grant, and...
we got it.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
So tell us what happened.
Uh, I first heard about the incident
when a Russian journalist
named Yuri Yarovoi published a
fictionalized account of it in a book.
Of course, they had him killed.
I mean, it didn't matter
that he fictionalized it.
They didn't want anybody
talking about Dyatlov.
And I began using the facts of the incident
as a teaching exercise in psychology
because there's so much that
we know about what happened
at Dyatlov's Pass, so many details,
and yet the whole thing
remains shrouded in mystery.
What are some of the explanations
that you tend to get?
The most common, cold,
scientific explanation I get
is a condition called
hypothermic dementia.
Hypothermic dementia.
Yup, that is literally
what everybody says.
But, um, my favorite is, um,
"paradoxical undressing."
That does actually happen, though,
to people suffering with severe hypothermia.
They get disoriented,
think that they're overheating,
and then start taking off their clothes.
Come on!
Holly, these were nine
experienced backpackers.
Yeah?
You're telling me that
they all got severe hypothermia
at the same time, on the same night?
Maybe.
They'd been out there
for three days already.
Why, then?
An avalanche is another frequent answer.
That is even stupider
than paradoxical undressing.
Why?
If they could hear an avalanche, then
why did they stay away from the camp
for three hours with no shoes?
But in truth, there are innumerable
answers to the question.
Most of my students will
project their own fears onto it.
The Russian military.
I really expect my students to do more than
to come up with a believable explanation.
I want them to put themselves
so that they can try to understand
why the victims did what they did.
That is the answer I'm looking for.
We're gonna find out the truth.
Even though they'll never find it.
What do you mean?
There is no truth.
The first leg of our journey will take us
from Eugene, Oregon, to Chelyabinsk, Russia.
You're not gonna use that stupid dotted red
line thing to show us traveling, right?
Wrong.
Our ultimate destination is the Kholat Syakhl,
literally translated
"the Mountain of the Dead,"
seriously.
A name the Mansi tribe gave it
due to many accounts
of mysterious deaths and disappearances
throughout history.
So we found ourselves
an audio engineer, Denise Evers.
She was the only
audio person on campus
physical requirements.
A lot of skinny dudes in audio.
Hey, what's wrong with skinny dudes?
Oh. Uh, sorry, my bad.
And then we found two capable guides.
I'm Andy Thatcher,
president of the
Northwest Trail Association.
I've climbed just about every mountain
worth climbing in the U.S.
I've also hiked the A.T.
- Sorry, the what?
- The Appalachian Trail.
It runs from Maine to Georgia.
It took me all summer.
So you think that you can handle this?
Yeah.
Okay, what makes you want
to do this, Andy?
Well, like I said,
just about everything
worth climbing in the U.S.
It's time for a new challenge.
Are you scared?
No.
Really? It's just that, you know, we're
re-creating a trip in which nine people died.
Yeah, what, like, 50 years ago?
I mean, come on. Even if it was
the Abominable Snowman...
- Yeti!
- he's dead or moved on by now.
- And you are?
- He's JP Hauser.
- JP.
- Got it.
And you think that you're ready for this?
Man, he spent a year hiking
in the Himalayas. He's ready.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I took a little time off.
- A lot of time off.
- Cool.
Like, Hauser like... Hauser Hall?
Like the building that
- That's the one.
- Cool.
That reminds me, I got to get to
Philosophy. I'll catch you kids later.
Slam!
Now that we had our crew,
it was time to get busy.
We studied our maps
and secured our gear.
We gathered our rations and supplies.
And then we trained
in the local mountains.
We were all getting excited
and eager to go.
I hate these freakin' snowshoes.
But you look so cool in them, Jensen.
Hey, I think you guys
are getting the hang of it!
Almost as much as I hate him.
Sh*t.
And now it's January 25th.
Time to go.
for five Oregon University students
who disappeared last month
in the Ural Mountains.
You may recall that three days ago,
rescue workers uncovered items
that apparently belonged
to the students,
including tents, backpacks,
and other equipment.
Our Russian correspondent,
Ivan Kudryavtsev,
has more.
Good afternoon, Ivan Kudryavtsev and
you are watching channel Russia 24.
We continue covering the event that
captures the international media attention
and is the country 's most
talked about news.
The mysterious disappearance of a group
of American documentaries in the Urals
which, as you may know, followed
the steps of Igor Dyatlov,
whose nine members were killed in
mysterious circumstances in 1959.
The experts handle various theories
to explain the disappearances.
The weather here can be dangerous, the temperature
can drop to -50 and winds are brutal.
Wind can change direction in an instant.
At the top, the wind blows towards the
west and a little further down east.
So when someone goes up the mountain and
believes that they are moving in a straight line
they actually go completely in the other direction.
We do not know how prepared they are for
climatic conditions of northern Russia.
I think they made contact with aliens,
a ship or something...
There have been many curious
events in the area in recent years.
The more I study the site,
hearing more storys that are...
...mystical, even sinister.
There are so many unexplained mysteries in that area,
it feeds such theories, even the mystical.
It's understandable, as long as there are
stories, objects that cant be explained,
and to this day they are common,
the stories of the yeti footprints.
Also a native tribe in the area,
Mansi, have their own theory.
Dyatlov group disappeared,
There were loud noises and strange
eunexplained fireballs over the mountains
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