In the Darkness of Night: Dyatlov Pass

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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On February 1, 1959, a group of Russian ski hikers stray off-course due to low visibility caused by snow and wind, only to find themselves forced to set up their tent for the night on the slopes of a remote peak in the northern Ural range called Kholat Syakhl, which translates to "dead mountain". At some point during the night, however, the group flees the tent with no regard for anything but getting away, leaving themselves prone to the elements, and without any resources. Soon after, all of them are dead, but under seemingly bizarre circumstances that haven't been explained to this day. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological examination of the evidence in this baffling mystery.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.4	starring the pot once again as we delve into one of the more fascinating yet perplexing
0:15.2	mysteries of the 20th century, the Diatlov Pass incident.
0:19.7	In the late afternoon of February 1st, 1959, a group of nine ski hikers from the Soviet Union,
0:27.1	led by 23-year-old Igor Diatlov, set up camp along a slope on Kolotziaqal in a remote section of the northern
0:35.0	neural mountains. By mourning, however, each of them would be dead and
0:39.0	seemingly under very bizarre circumstances that have been attributed to everything from interference
0:45.0	by the Russian military to sound waves to attacks by a local tribe to supernatural forces. And yes, even the possibility of a Yeti, a giant hairy Bigfoot-like
0:58.2	creature. That's how crazy this gets. So let's jump right into the facts about why they went, how they got
1:05.9	there, and of course the thing we all want to know. What happened? Now the first thing to note here is that there isn't any definitive evidence as to what happened
1:16.5	so in terms of how I approach this I'm going to favor probability but again there's really no way for me to know what happened or anybody else for
1:25.9	that matter. Now to get things rolling here I'll introduce the 10 ski hikers who
1:30.8	participate in this journey. Of course I just told you it was nine
1:34.3	but one person will drop out along the way giving us additional insight into the group
1:39.5	that we wouldn't otherwise have. Most of them are students at Euro Polytechnical Institute and are in their early
1:46.1	to mid-20s, while another member is a 37-year-old World War II veteran. The purpose of the trip is to earn the credentials to
1:54.6	advance from grade two hikers to grade three, allowing them a master of sports
1:59.2	certification, which was the highest qualification at that time in the field.
2:04.0	The expedition is arranged by Igor Diatlov, an accomplished ski hiker who was well respected
2:09.6	among his peers for being a strong leader. Accompanying him are seven men and two women who are as follows.
2:16.8	Yuri Doroshenko, 21. Ludmila Dubanina, 20. Georgie Kervaneshanko, 23, Alexander Kalevatov, 24,
2:28.0	Zenida Komogorova, 22, Rustam Slobadan, 23,
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