Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped

millions of people throughout the ages.

I am one of those people.

My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.

The Morning podcast. While trying to keep myself up to date with anything new surrounding the Diatlav Pass incident,

listen to our previous two episodes series on this one for more information about it,

I came across another incident involving another group of young Russian hikers perishing on the frozen slopes

of a mountain. This incident has only recently reached English-speaking audiences, and according to one of the

people who aided in the recovery effort after this incident, it's in danger of being embellished

with conspiracy and paranormal theories,

in the same way the Diatlav Pass incident currently is. That's why I wanted to share the facts of

the case with you on the 51st anniversary of the tragedy. The incident has many names,

including the Chivruai incident, the Chivruai tragedy, and

the Kola Peninsula tragedy.

There aren't any official documents surviving about the case, at least none that have

been uncovered so far.

Most of the articles published about the case come from people who participated in the search for the bodies

and family members or friends of the deceased. All of these are in Russian, which unfortunately

I can't read. Thankfully, researcher Teodora Hajikska, who authored 1079, the overwhelming force

of Diatlov Pass with Igor Pavlov and runs Diatlavpass.com

has posted English translations of some of the articles and conducted her own research into the

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