The Dyatlov Pass Incident Page #5

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and 11:
00 that night,

something that Russian officials could only

identify as "an unknown compelling force"

caused all nine of them to flee

from their tent in such terror

that they ripped through it

and fled into the night.

It was 17 degrees below zero.

You're gonna love this footage, Andy.

You look like a TV chef.

Oh, yeah? Which one?

The gay one.

- That's harsh.

- That's real cute, Jensen.

Rustem Slobotkin, 23,

the first of them to fall.

Igor Dyatlov, 23,

the group's leader

and the most experienced hiker.

It was probably his idea

to try for the tents.

Zinaida Kolmogorova, 22.

She was just a year older than I am now.

She got the closest to the camp

before succumbing.

The only victim showing

any sign of a struggle,

she was missing her tongue

and a large portion of her oral cavity.

Lyudmila Dublinina, 21.

Nicholas Thibeaux-Brignollel.

Alexander Zolotarev.

Alexander Kolevatov.

The cause of death for all the victims

was determined to be hypothermia.

But Rustem and Nicholas also

had severely crushed skulls,

and Lyudmila and Alexander Zolotarev

had a number of broken ribs.

But none of the bodies

had any defensive injuries,

no external injuries whatsoever.

Somehow something managed

to crush the skulls of two men

and shatter the ribs

of Lyudmila and Alexander

without leaving so much as a bruise.

Also, Alexander's body tested positive

for high levels of radiation.

Hello!

Where out here did Alexander

encounter so much radiation?

And why only him?

Georgyl Krivonischenko, 24.

Yuri Doroshenko, 21.

While the others ran,

they sat quietly by their dying fire

and calmly froze to death.

- What's up, Andy?

- Nothing.

Doesn't look like nothing.

The GPS is all screwed up. It should

have alerted us when we got to site.

We're lucky you spotted it.

And I supposed you think

that that's my fault too.

- I don't know. Did you screw with it?

- No!

If she did, she managed

to get ahold of my watch too.

My altimeter is toast.

And look at this.

That compass is a Suunto.

It got me through the Himalayas, and it's

always worked perfectly everywhere but here.

I think we should go.

- What? We just got here.

- Look, we don't have to go back yet,

but we're flying blind

without a GPS or a reliable map.

What's wrong with the map?

We shouldn't be here yet.

What do you mean?

According to the map,

we've covered 14 miles today.

There's no way we could have

gotten here before midnight.

So what? So we were fast.

Look, let's just pack up and keep moving

until the compass stops acting up.

There's obviously... some kind of,

I don't know magnetic field

in the rock here or something.

We can start up somewhere new, and

nobody'd be able to tell the difference.

It won't match the footage

that we shot before, though.

Screw the footage, Holly.

Something obviously is wrong.

We should just leave.

If we start packing now,

we can make it.

No, no. No, no, no, no.

I don't want to camp here either,

but by the time we get packed up and get

moving, we're gonna be hiking in the dark.

It's no good.

Guys, it's for one night.

You know, people lived for thousands

of years without, watches and GPS.

I think that we could make one night.

It's what we all came here for.

All right. All right, I'll start dinner.

Thank you.

Hey.

I'm ruining date night over there.

Starting to feel like a third wheel.

I just don't understand what

she sees in somebody like him.

I mean, he's just such an arrogant...

- Confident.

- Self-important...

- Rugged.

- Douche bag.

- Yeah

- Stud.

You know, there is room

in that tent, I'm sure,

if you want to go and join them.

Aw. Maybe for you too.

I'm sure you'll have a boyfriend

as nice as Andy one day, so...

What are you doing?

Nothing. I'm just gonna...

Oh, sh*t.

Thank you. Thank you.

This is one of the reasons

that you can't meet anyone.

No, I can't meet anybody because

everybody thinks I'm dating you.

Oh, you wish.

Um...

look, I was thinking about...

what Ranger Rick said

about this being a magnetic field.

Yeah?

What if it's not?

Okay.

Why don't you tell the folks

at home what you got there?

So this is a fairly basic Geiger counter.

Um, without getting too complicated,

it detects levels of radiation.

As you can hear,

there is definitely radiation

in this area.

It could be, uh,

uranium in the rock here.

It's nothing dangerous,

but it's... it's way more

than we should be seeing.

Yeah.

And the source of it

is definitely coming from here.

Let's check it out.

Over this way.

Watch your step.

- Oh.

- Yeah.

Lucille does not like this.

I think that we found something.

Hey, Jensen.

See how the ice is thinner there?

- Yeah.

- The snow.

Yeah? What about it?

It looks like someone's been here.

Maybe, like, even in the last few days.

Be careful.

Okay.

Here, right up here.

- Holly, be careful.

- Okay.

Wait.

Jensen, I don't think

that this is a rock.

Oh, sh*t. Are you getting this?

I'm getting it. I'm getting it.

Jensen, this...

- Sh*t.

- Be careful.

- Can you see this?

- Yes.

Keep going. Keep going.

Come on.

- What is that?

- I don't know. It's...

Oh, my God.

Oh, Jensen. Do you see that?

- Tell the camera what you see.

- Oh, Jensen!

What do you see? Come on!

It's like a cave or something.

Oh, my God, Jensen, it's...

You got to put the camera down

and come help me.

- There's a door.

- What?

Put the camera down.

Got to get this on film.

This is so weird.

Of course it's weird, Jensen. Look.

It's a door in the middle of a mountain.

It locks from the outside.

It's designed to keep something in.

Yeah, but what?

Holly!

Look, man, come on!

The Russian government has

spent a lot of time and effort

building a big, solid door

in the side of a mountain

to keep whatever's inside in there.

I don't think we should be...

Jensen, what the hell are we here for?

Do you want to know if the

"unknown compelling force"

is a yeti or an alien or a...

Soviet-engineered superman?

I want to know what happened here,

and the answer is behind that door!

So would you just help me

open it, please?

Okay?

Wait.

It's moving.

It's already open.

It's... it's frozen shut at the seams.

Well, that's good.

That means that we can...

we can get it open.

- We just need to melt the ice.

- Let me get the guys.

- We'll get some hot water, and we can...

- No, no, no, not them.

Jesus. Uh, no, because...

What?

They're already really jumpy, okay?

And this is just gonna

freak them out, and...

I just...

I don't want to move camp, okay? So...

we'll tell them about it tomorrow.

We'll just leave it now,

and then we'll come back, okay?

Hey, guys. What's up?

- Want to go to bed?

- Yeah, sure.

Good night.

All right.

- Night, Holly.

- Good night.

- You guys have a good one.

- Night, guys.

What are you reading?

"Slaughterhouse Five."

You don't like Vonnegut?

No, I love that book. I was

just thinking about it yesterday.

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