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Mile Higher

365: 7 Hikers, 1 Survivor: The Unsolved Horror of the Khamar Daban Mountain Tragedy

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Intro 0:00
Years in the Making 1:33
The Deepest Lake in the World 9:15
Many Mysteries in Baikal 11:14
Somewhat Plausible Stories 16:57
A Well-Rounded Crew 20:08
Lyudmila's Many Accomplishments 24:01
Fighting the Storm 32:23
The Horror Begins 34:08
Finding the Bodies 40:57
Exposure Theory 47:07
Altitude Sickness Theory 52:10
Mushrooms Theory 56:34
Air Pocket Theory 1:02:40
Infrasound Theory 1:05:24
Novichok Theory 1:10:58
Natural Gasses Theory 1:14:57
Valentina Tracked Down 1:18:07
Lightning Strikes Theory 1:22:33
Possible Theory Issues 1:30:04
Final Thoughts & Outro

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0:00.0

Hey, what is up, everybody, and welcome back to Mile Higher.

0:27.5

It is I,osh and i it's me ian again and tom today actually and me it's uh yeah it's just the boys the mile higher boys today because the ladies are at a

0:34.3

conference for a higher hope and so you we said, we're just going to go

0:38.5

absolutely insane this week and do something really crazy and cover a Russian mystery.

0:46.8

That's similar to dial of pass. It is. It's very funny to me. I mean, it's not funny. It's

0:52.7

horrible people that. But it's funny to me just how many Russian theories there are just of mass death, but then how all of them also immediately, it's like weapons testing.

1:03.2

They were killing their own people.

1:04.4

It always goes there.

1:05.6

Always does.

1:06.5

It's, uh, yeah, which is one of the theories, of course.

1:09.9

Uh, because it's a similar situation to the

1:12.2

of past with a group of hikers that just all dropped dead mysteriously on a seemingly, you know,

1:19.5

not an easy hike per se, but not like we're not climbing Everest here.

1:23.9

You know what I mean?

1:24.5

So it's nothing like that.

1:26.2

So it's kind of similar in the situation where they all die, except for one.

1:29.9

There is one survivor in this, which is different. Yeah, I think that that's what kind of messes this whole thing up. Because, like, with Dialov, it could be like. Who knows? Yeah. Like, whatever. Like, a nuke went off. Yeah, okay, sure. but with this, it's like there is one person who made it out.

1:44.7

So it kind of just, it messes with all of the potential this, it's like there is one person who made it out.

1:44.7

So it kind of just, it messes with all of the potential theories because it's like, why did she live?

1:49.6

It's also kind of mysterious.

1:51.4

She literally disappeared and then has had different sort of takes on the story.

1:55.8

And then, you know, when Ian was researching this, he's like, the English version of events versus the Russian version

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