Igor Dyatlov

In the early morning of January the 23rd in 1959, a ski and hiking team of 10 boarded a train headed for the Ural Mountains in the middle of the Soviet Union.

The group consisted of eight men and two women, with Igor Dyatlov as the group's leader.

As the train slowly advanced deep into the mountainous Siberian taiga, the group diary received a final entry.

"I wonder what awaits us on this hike.

Times nine.

In February nineteen fifty-nine, nine Soviet students, experienced mountaineers led by Igor Dyatlov, set off into the Ural Mountains.

Their destination, Mount Otorten.

Translated from the local Mansi language, it means "Don’t go there." Always a promising start.

On February 26th, 1959, Boris Slobzov and Mikhail Sharovin reached a tent on the eastern slope of a mountain in the northern Ural Range.

They were looking for nine missing hikers led by Igor Dyatlov.

The party had been expected back from a difficult ski expedition and search teams had begun working through the route they were believed to have taken.

Snow covered the tent.

It does not reveal the event that later ended it.

The party began with ten people connected to the Ural Polytechnic Institute and its tourism community.

Igor Dyatlov, a student, led the expedition.

The group included Zinaida Kolmogorova, Lyudmila Dubonina, Aleksandr Kolevatov, Yuri Doroshenko, Rustam Slobodin, Georgy Krivonishchenko, Nikolai Thibault-Brignol, Semyon Zolotaryov and Yuri Yudin.

February 1959 The northern Ural Mountains of Soviet Russia.

Nine experienced hikers set out on an ambitious winter expedition led by twenty three year old igor dyatlov they were students and graduates from the uropolytechnic institute skilled experienced well equipped for the conditions they planned to reach the summit of otorton mountain they never came back when search parties eventually found the camp and the bodies what they discovered made no sense the tent had been slashed open from the inside with a knife footprints in the snow showed the group had walked not run away from the tent into the freezing night some in only socks some barefoot some in their underwear the temperature was approximately minus thirty degrees celsius five of the nine bodies were found first within a kilometre of the tent they had died of hypothermia two months later when snow melted the remaining four were found in a ravine these four had injuries that were not hypothermia one had a fractured skull so severe that it was compared to the force of a car accident others had fractured ribs two were missing their eyes One was missing her tongue.

No obvious cause of these injuries was found.

No signs of a struggle.

Tonight we examine every serious theory and the conspiracy dimensions that the Soviet cover-up has never fully dispelled.

Detailed explanation, the group that set out in January 1959 was not inexperienced.

Igor Dyatlov was a seasoned winter hiker who had led multiple expeditions through the Urals.

His companions included Zina Kalmagorova, Rustam Slobodin, and Yuri Doroshenko, all experienced.

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yeah it's and i should just a couple of things to add before we go in so the leader of this his name is igor dyatlov he's what the expedition is named after right a lot of people don't think about this but do you want to guess how old he was

Maybe you know.

I have it on here, but without looking at it, he's 21, right? 23.