Speaker 1: Knee deep in snow by the banks of the Lozva River,
Speaker 1: Boris slops off, pulled the hood up over his head,
Speaker 1: and tied the flaps of his hat down tightly below
Speaker 1: his chin. It was all he could do to stop
Speaker 1: the incessant pelting of his face by the flecks of
Speaker 1: snow being whipped up relentlessly by the wind. In the distance,
Speaker 1: he can hear the repetitive, dull chop of helicopter blades.
Speaker 1: The sound gets closer and closer, until eventually the olive
Speaker 1: green m I four finally comes into view. Squinting now
Speaker 1: into the sun, he watches as it makes a slow,
Speaker 1: lumbering turn across the sky, before settling over the Lozva
Speaker 1: and forging a path straight towards him. And then, just
Speaker 1: as it's about to fly above his head, it makes
Speaker 1: a sharp bank to the right. Boris is close enough
Speaker 1: to see the copilot wave before throwing something out of
Speaker 1: the cockpit. Boris watches as the object drops from the sky,
Speaker 1: its red ribbon flapping manically as it falls, before nestling
Speaker 1: in the snow meters away from Boris's feet. He hurries
Speaker 1: over and pulls the canister free unscrewing the cap to
Speaker 1: find a message for his team lodged inside. It tells
Speaker 1: them to head towards the Auspia River, roughly three kilometers
Speaker 1: to the south. It is Wednesday, February the twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: exactly four weeks since Yuri Yuden was forced to abandon
Speaker 1: Eager Diatlov and the eight other friends he had been
Speaker 1: accompanying as part of an expedition towards O'tauton Mountain in
Speaker 1: the Russian Urals. It had been a painful decision for Yuri,
Speaker 1: but one perhaps not quite as painful as the crippling
Speaker 1: effects of rheumatism that had plagued him throughout the journey
Speaker 1: and in the end left him with little choice but
Speaker 1: to turn back. Urie had last been with the group
Speaker 1: in the north to settlement an old, abandoned geological site
Speaker 1: from which they were due to strike out towards O'torton
Speaker 1: Mountain a short time after they had said their goodbyes.
Speaker 1: The team had been expected to arrive back in their
Speaker 1: hometown of spurred Lovsk on February the thirteenth, almost two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but the team had never returned. Twenty two
Speaker 1: year old Boris Slobsov is a friend of Eagers and
Speaker 1: a member of the same hiking club. He too had
Speaker 1: planned to one day make the hike to O'tauton Mountain,
Speaker 1: but never could he have imagined it would be under
Speaker 1: circumstances such as these. Boris had been one of the
Speaker 1: first to volunteer to help find the team, after concerns
Speaker 1: had been voiced about their whereabouts. The alarm had been
Speaker 1: raised by anxious parents on the thirteenth, but it would
Speaker 1: be almost another week before hiking club officials deem it
Speaker 1: a serious concern worthy of a formal search and rescue operation.
Speaker 1: It was, after all, not uncommon for such lengthy hikes
Speaker 1: to suffer the odd one or two days delay, But
Speaker 1: when a whole week later there is still no word
Speaker 1: from the team, it is clear that something has gone
Speaker 1: drastically wrong. The Ural Polytechnic's first response is to dispatch
Speaker 1: hiking club director Lev Gordo and young Yurie Blinov, who
Speaker 1: had traveled part way with the Diatlov team prior to
Speaker 1: their disappearance, to undertake a quick air surveillance of the
Speaker 1: team's probable route. Meanwhile, in Evedale, the town closest to
Speaker 1: where the team was last seen, A criminal investigation is
Speaker 1: opened up, led by local prosecutor Vasili Tempolov. A three
Speaker 1: pronged attack is established when experienced hiker Yevgeny Maslennikov is
Speaker 1: also enlisted to help run things on the ground. Yevgeny,
Speaker 1: who was well aware of Eager and his compatriots, having
Speaker 1: initially helped them to plan their route, wastes little time
Speaker 1: in joining the search. On the twenty fourth, Tempolov agrees
Speaker 1: to open up the search to include all possible routes
Speaker 1: taken by Tiatlov's team, and by now, with news of
Speaker 1: the team's disappearance spreading throughout the region, many volunteers have
Speaker 1: come forward to offer their help, including members of the family,
Speaker 1: fellow students, and workers from the local camps. The search
Speaker 1: is given an early boost when Gordo and Blinov pick
Speaker 1: up a trail that leads them to a Manzi village
Speaker 1: called bartier Rova. The Manse are an indigenous people of
Speaker 1: western Siberia, an area running roughly fifteen hundred kilometers from
Speaker 1: the Ural Mountains to the Great Jense River in the east.
Speaker 1: This vast stretch of land is sometimes referred to as
Speaker 1: Ugra Land, but is now commonly known as the Kanti
Speaker 1: Mansisk Autonomous District. It is believed that Manse have populated
Speaker 1: the region since the Mesolithic Age, sharing ancestors with both
Speaker 1: the people of Hungary and Finland. They are historically known
Speaker 1: for their proficiency in hunting, fishing, and reindeer breeding, but
Speaker 1: they are also a superstitious people, steeped in a rich
Speaker 1: culture and folklore unique to themselves but also to this region,
Speaker 1: although some have claimed an ancient lineage that goes back
Speaker 1: to the Sumerians, whom many consider to be the first
Speaker 1: great civilization. To look upon the Ural Mountains through the
Speaker 1: eyes of the Mansie is to see another world hidden
Speaker 1: from the view of most. It is a sacred place,
Speaker 1: home to spirits and gods, and many an unsolved ancient mystery.
Speaker 1: Although for Gordo and Glinov the trail goes cold in
Speaker 1: Bartia Rova, their efforts have caught the attention of several
Speaker 1: Mansie tribesmen, who, like everybody else, are deeply moved by
Speaker 1: the plight of the missing students. The offer to lend
Speaker 1: their unparalleled local knowledge and tracking skills to the search
Speaker 1: is gratefully accepted. The Mansie team is led by Stepan Kurikov,
Speaker 1: a warm hearted and hulking presence, as well as being
Speaker 1: one of the most respected of the tribal elders. A
Speaker 1: few days later, the helicopter search team picks up ski
Speaker 1: tracks heading north from the Auspire River at the bottom
Speaker 1: of a mountain known as Kolat Siakl, but searches on
Speaker 1: the ground are unable to establish any clear route before
Speaker 1: bad weather brings the day's search to an end. It
Speaker 1: is the following day when Boris Slapsov and his team
Speaker 1: receive their message to search the corresponding area. Later that afternoon,
Speaker 1: a breakthrough discovery is made when Boris locates one of
Speaker 1: the Diatlov team's campsites on the banks of the river,
Speaker 1: just to the edge of a forest. It is clear
Speaker 1: that Diatlov's team would most likely have stuck out from
Speaker 1: here and headed straight towards a tautumn mountain over the
Speaker 1: exposed banks of Colat Siakol, But with night fast approaching
Speaker 1: and the weather becoming increasingly volatile, Slobsov's team are unable
Speaker 1: to follow suit and a force to retreat into the
Speaker 1: tree line and make camp for the night. That evening,
Speaker 1: as the dark closed in around them. With yet another
Speaker 1: day gone, Slopsov can't help but think upon the fate
Speaker 1: of his friends and to just what exactly might be
Speaker 1: lying in wait, buried under the snow. It hasn't escaped
Speaker 1: his attention either, that the name Collet Siakl translates as
Speaker 1: dead Mountain. The next day, Fabruary the twenty sixth, Slopsov
Speaker 1: suggests that the team break into pairs to widen the
Speaker 1: search area. Boris joins up with fellow hiking team member
Speaker 1: Mikhail's Sharavin, and together they head off in the direction
Speaker 1: of O'tauton across the eastern slope of Kolet Siakl. That afternoon,
Speaker 1: as the two hikers battle raging winds and minus twenty
Speaker 1: degree temperatures, the hikers are three hundred meters from the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain when Mikhail spots something up ahead
Speaker 1: sticking out of the snow. It looks like a tent.
Speaker 1: Getting nearer, the thing starts to reveal itself. They can
Speaker 1: now clearly see the poles sticking out from underneath and
Speaker 1: the south facing entrance that remains intact while the entire
Speaker 1: back half has collapsed under the weight of snowfall. Boris
Speaker 1: calls out hopefully for his friends, but hears nothing in
Speaker 1: reply save for the fierce whistling of the wind. He
Speaker 1: steps toward the entrance, takes a deep breath, and pulls
Speaker 1: back the flap. It is with an odd mix of
Speaker 1: relief and disappointment that Boris finds the tent completely deserted,
Speaker 1: the relief being tempered by the fact that almost everything
Speaker 1: that the hikers had been traveling with appeared to have
Speaker 1: been left behind inside, as if the team had just
Speaker 1: vanished into the But for Boris, their absence provides a
Speaker 1: glimmer of hope that his friends might actually still be alive.
Speaker 1: Pushing back on the heavy canvas, Boris and Mikhail managed
Speaker 1: to write the tent enough to take a proper look inside.
Speaker 1: On the floor, they find the nine backpacks belonging to
Speaker 1: each team member, as well as each of their skis.
Speaker 1: Perhaps most curiously, they find a jacket left on the
Speaker 1: ground outside the tent. Boris pulls it from the snow
Speaker 1: and scours the surrounding area, hoping to spot footprints or
Speaker 1: any other sign of his friends, but sees only the
Speaker 1: vast white emptiness, and with dark clouds beginning to roll in,
Speaker 1: Boris and Mikhail only have a few minutes to gather
Speaker 1: what they can before reluctantly being forced back to their camp.
Speaker 1: On their return, Boris is able to send word back
Speaker 1: to Evedale suggesting all search efforts be concentrated on the
Speaker 1: surrounding area. A reply comes back to dig out a
Speaker 1: helicopter landing site in preparation for over fifty people who
Speaker 1: will be arriving the next day. It is another anxious
Speaker 1: night for Boris and his team, and their attention is
Speaker 1: constantly drawn to the items brought back from the abandoned tent.
Speaker 1: The presence of the items in Boris's tent seems only
Speaker 1: to bring the absence of their owners closer, as if
Speaker 1: they had merely stepped outside for a moment before returning
Speaker 1: to collect their things. Boris picks up the jacket and
Speaker 1: examines the pockets, hoping for any clue as to the
Speaker 1: team's whereabouts. Inside, he discovers a notebook, suggesting the jacket
Speaker 1: was eager to Yatlovs. Flicking through the pages, Boris discovers
Speaker 1: a photograph. It is a portrait of Zena. The following day, Friday,
Speaker 1: the twenty seventh, the search teams converge on the newly
Speaker 1: discovered campsite, including police equipped with search dogs. The ensuing
Speaker 1: chaos threatens to undermine any hope of finding tracks under
Speaker 1: the snow, but remarkably, one of the team find some
Speaker 1: twenty meters or so from the tent, under a patch
Speaker 1: of freshly fallen snow. They see them clearly now veering
Speaker 1: off down the side of the hill towards the Lzva
Speaker 1: River valley. But there is something very odd. Some of
Speaker 1: the prints seemed bizarrely small, almost as if whoever had
Speaker 1: made them had not been wearing any shoes. And there
Speaker 1: is another vital discovery, a team diary kept by all
Speaker 1: the members of the group to document their expedition. The
Speaker 1: entries had been meticulously kept since the first day, but
Speaker 1: had ended abruptly on January the thirty first, suggesting whatever
Speaker 1: happened likely occurred around Ray the first, meaning the group
Speaker 1: has now been missing for four weeks. Are you always
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Speaker 1: who are that morning searching the banks of the Lozva River,
Speaker 1: are informed of the tracks found leading towards their location.
Speaker 1: Boris plays out the scenario in his head until he
Speaker 1: has transported back to the night the team left the tent.
Speaker 1: He sees them now, their movements echoing through time as
Speaker 1: they descend down the mountain and head for the shelter
Speaker 1: of the same trees that he is walking among A
Speaker 1: short time later, and Mikhail finds something strange at the
Speaker 1: base of a cedar tree. Poking through the snow, he
Speaker 1: finds the charred remains of a makeshift fire that had
Speaker 1: clearly been hastily put together. He notices also that a
Speaker 1: number of the tree's branches have been recently snapped off.
Speaker 1: And then, just north of the tree, there is something
Speaker 1: else sticking out of the snow, something once soft but
Speaker 1: now as rigid and hard as the cedar. It is
Speaker 1: a human leg. For Boris and his team, it is
Speaker 1: a devastating discovery, and one that will extinguish any remaining
Speaker 1: hope of finding his friends alive. But for us it
Speaker 1: merely marks another beginning to this strange and bizarre tale,
Speaker 1: for it is about to get very weird. Indeed, after
Speaker 1: Mikhail's grew some discovery, Boris alerts mass Lennikov's team, and
Speaker 1: together they carefully begin to excavate the body from the snow.
Speaker 1: But as they dig further, they discover not one body,
Speaker 1: but two, lying side by side together, with one face
Speaker 1: down and the other face up. As the last of
Speaker 1: the snow is pushed from one of the faces, Boris
Speaker 1: recoils in horror, the mouth, nose, and eyes appear to
Speaker 1: have been completely removed. Despite the apparent mutilation, Boris recognizes
Speaker 1: the face instantly as Giorgi Kryvonnishenko. The other body is
Speaker 1: soon revealed to be that of Yuri Dorishenko, but it's
Speaker 1: not until the full horror of the discovery has sunk
Speaker 1: in that they notice something peculiar about the clothes on
Speaker 1: the bodies, or rather the lack of them. Georgy appears
Speaker 1: not to be wearing a jacket or trousers, just one
Speaker 1: checkered shirt and some swimming trunks under long underwear. Even
Speaker 1: more bizarrely, the left leg of the underwear has been
Speaker 1: ripped off and his feet are completely bare. Doroshenko appears
Speaker 1: somewhat better dressed, with an undershirt, check top, long underwear
Speaker 1: and socks, but no shoes. His clothes also appear to
Speaker 1: have been bizarrely shredded. After the discovery of the bodies,
Speaker 1: the focus of the search switches quickly to the valley
Speaker 1: Mancy elder Stepan Kurikov leads the search along with his
Speaker 1: German shepherd sniffer dog. Another experienced hiker, Vladislav Kurelen, has
Speaker 1: also joined the search. Vladislav was a medical engineer who
Speaker 1: had cross passed with Datlov's team. As they made their
Speaker 1: way towards o' taunton. Having located the first two bodies,
Speaker 1: it isn't long before the German shepherd picks up another
Speaker 1: ominous scent. Pulling hard on the leash, he drags his
Speaker 1: owner across to a spot where Stepan recognizes something unnatural
Speaker 1: about the way the birch tree shoots a sticky out
Speaker 1: from the snow. The dog sniffs heavily at the spot,
Speaker 1: and soon they have made another gruesome discovery, as just
Speaker 1: below the surface they find an arm that appears still
Speaker 1: to be pulling in desperation at the shoots. This body
Speaker 1: is better dressed than the other two, complete with a sweater,
Speaker 1: fur vest and ski trousers, but again extraordinarily, there are
Speaker 1: no gloves and no shoes. Vladislav Korellin recognizes the face
Speaker 1: of Eager Diatlov. Moments later, Evedale policeman Lieutenant Nikolay Moisiev
Speaker 1: and his dog Alma are heading back from the trees
Speaker 1: towards the team's tent, when Alma gets suddenly anxious and
Speaker 1: begins to dig. Manikoi it is yet another body, lying
Speaker 1: face down with their knees bent, as if making a
Speaker 1: final desperate bid to crawl back to the same of
Speaker 1: the tent. Moisiev turns the body over and is surprised
Speaker 1: to find dried blood smeared across the faith. The body
Speaker 1: will later be identified as that of Zena Kolmogorova. Yevgeny Maslennikov,
Speaker 1: who by now has been made head of the entire
Speaker 1: ground search operation, orders the bodies to be wrapped in
Speaker 1: tarpaulin and taken to Boot Rock on the bank of
Speaker 1: Kolatsiakl while they await evacuation and formal autopsy. Watching as
Speaker 1: the bodies are laid out at the base of the rock,
Speaker 1: Maslennikov can't help but begin to formulate his own theories
Speaker 1: about just what might have taken place. For Maslennikov, it
Speaker 1: appears a simple case of being caught out by the weather.
Speaker 1: Perhaps one of the team stepped out of the tent
Speaker 1: only to be swept away by the wind, prompting his
Speaker 1: friends to make a fatal rescue attempt. Or perhaps it
Speaker 1: was an avalanche that scared them from the safety of
Speaker 1: their tent and left them catastrophically disorientated. Only if the
Speaker 1: wind or avalanche had been so strong as to push
Speaker 1: the hikers down the valley, why was the tent still
Speaker 1: clinging so firmly to the side of the mountain, its
Speaker 1: poles still standing as they would have been the day
Speaker 1: they were pitched. The day after the four bodies are discovered,
Speaker 1: Prosecutor Vasily Tempelof finally arrives on the scene to make
Speaker 1: his own assessment of the evidence. He makes a note
Speaker 1: of the various items found at the campsite, but also
Speaker 1: he is the first person to notice something odd about
Speaker 1: the tent itself. It may have still been standing, but
Speaker 1: what no one had seemed to notice before was that
Speaker 1: one side of it had been completely and unnaturally slashed
Speaker 1: to pieces. But before Tempolov can get his teeth into
Speaker 1: the investigation, he is told to step down from the operation.
Speaker 1: On the morning of Sunday, March first, yet another helicopter
Speaker 1: arrives at the search headquarters at the foot of Kolat Siakle.
Speaker 1: The door is opened and outsteps the determined figure of
Speaker 1: lev Ivanov, junior Counsel of Justice and now lead investigator
Speaker 1: on the case. He adjusts his glasses and pulls his
Speaker 1: jacket tighter before being led away from the chopper and
Speaker 1: straight into the fray. Moments later, he is casting his
Speaker 1: eyes over the makeshift fire at the base of the
Speaker 1: cedar tree. Suddenly, with Ivanov on the scene, the investigation
Speaker 1: seems to have taken on another guise, like something from
Speaker 1: a classic detective novel. There is more than the touch
Speaker 1: of the brooding, enigmatic hero about Ivanov, his thick, black
Speaker 1: rimmed glasses lending a cerebral air to this intense veteran
Speaker 1: of the Great Patriotic War. Immediately, he makes note of
Speaker 1: a number of branches snapped from up high in the tree.
Speaker 1: Perhaps one of the team climbed the tree in an
Speaker 1: attempt to call the others, or maybe he had been
Speaker 1: trying to escape from something. He also notices another pair
Speaker 1: of footprints in the snow, suggesting that Georgi and Yuri
Speaker 1: weren't alone when they died. He begins to ponder as
Speaker 1: to just why they let the fire burn out if
Speaker 1: there was plenty of firewood around to be used. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Maslennikov is overseeing a team of thirty men lined up
Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder as they probe the ground with steel
Speaker 1: avalanche poles. That day, they cover a region of roughly
Speaker 1: thirty thousand square yards, but the search yields nothing more. Later,
Speaker 1: Ivanov and Maslennikov will together analyze the abandoned tent, leaving
Speaker 1: Ivanov convinced more than ever that whatever killed Diatlov's team members,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the wind and it wasn't heavy snowfall. On March,
Speaker 1: the second one of the search teams comes across a
Speaker 1: story shelter perched high up in the trees, laden with
Speaker 1: various supplies. It is a common practice for hiking teams
Speaker 1: to unburden themselves before venturing out on the most grueling
Speaker 1: part of a journey. This appears to have been the
Speaker 1: case with Diatlov's team. The search party are moved to
Speaker 1: find Georgy's mandolin amongst the items of food. It is
Speaker 1: a stark and sudden reminder of a time before. Later
Speaker 1: that day, after the news of the store camp is
Speaker 1: passed up the chain, something a little more peculiar comes
Speaker 1: to light when Maslennikov is approached by one of the searches.
Speaker 1: It is Vladislav Karelin, the mountaineer who found Eager's body
Speaker 1: the previous week, and he has had something on his
Speaker 1: mind ever since. On the night of February the seventeenth,
Speaker 1: Karelin was hiking with his own team close to the
Speaker 1: trail that Dyatlov and his team had been taking when
Speaker 1: they witnessed something strange in the sky. A member of
Speaker 1: his group, Georgi at Menaki, had woken early to make
Speaker 1: breakfast when he noticed a large, bright white spot in
Speaker 1: the distance above them. He points it out to his
Speaker 1: friend Vladimir Chavkunov, believing it to be an especially bright moon,
Speaker 1: but Chavkunov was concerned there was no moon that morning,
Speaker 1: and in any case, if there had been, it would
Speaker 1: have been on the other side of the sky. Then suddenly,
Speaker 1: a spark lit in the center of the spot that
Speaker 1: seemed to burn brighter, getting bigger in sides, before flying
Speaker 1: off quickly to the west. The light would eventually get
Speaker 1: so big that they believed it was going to collide
Speaker 1: with the earth and kill them all, and they weren't
Speaker 1: the only ones to see it, as many local villages
Speaker 1: would later come forward attesting to the bizarre sighting. Maslennikov
Speaker 1: agrees it is certainly something to think about, but as
Speaker 1: he reminds Karelin Diatlov's team most likely died around the
Speaker 1: turn of the month, a good two weeks prior to
Speaker 1: the appearance of the strange light, but when the news
Speaker 1: reaches Ivanov, he finds it a little harder to shake.
Speaker 1: Later that afternoon, as he watches the bodies of Eager Yuri,
Speaker 1: Yorgi and Sina being loaded into the helicopter, talk of
Speaker 1: the strange lights and fire in the sky weighs heavily
Speaker 1: on his mind. It certainly wouldn't be the first time
Speaker 1: that something unknown had occurred in this nation, something perhaps
Speaker 1: carried out in secret and kept hidden from view. As
Speaker 1: he climbs in after the bodies, Maslennikov is there to
Speaker 1: see him off as the chopper lifts up into the
Speaker 1: air and flies away on its journey back to Evedale.
Speaker 1: The following day, with the search now starting to deliver results,
Speaker 1: Yuri Blinov, one of the last people to see his
Speaker 1: friends alive and who had worked so tirelessly over the
Speaker 1: past seven days to help find them, decides it is
Speaker 1: time to return home. The bodies are taken to the
Speaker 1: hospital of Labor Camp H two forty in Evedale and
Speaker 1: left to thor out before the formal autopsy can begin.
Speaker 1: Or March the fourth, the Regional Bureau of Forensic pathologist
Speaker 1: Boris Alexeyevitch vosros Deny and the city medical examiner Ivan
Speaker 1: Ivanovitch Laptev begin the procedure. Both Yury and Gyrgy display
Speaker 1: signs of burns to the side of their heads, consistent
Speaker 1: perhaps with the fact that they had fallen so close
Speaker 1: to the makeshift fire. As for Gyorgy's missing features, they
Speaker 1: are deemed likely to have been eaten by ravenous animals.
Speaker 1: Post mortem, The litany of abrasions and spots of dried
Speaker 1: blood found on all of the bodies suggest final moments
Speaker 1: of wild panic, but are not thought to be particularly
Speaker 1: suspicious given the location of where the bodies were found
Speaker 1: and the time of year. It is perhaps unsurprising when
Speaker 1: a verdict of death by hypothermia is returned on all
Speaker 1: four of the victims, and yet looking closer at the
Speaker 1: autopsy report reveals a number of peculiar findings. Skin from
Speaker 1: one of Gilgi's right knuckles is found in his mouth,
Speaker 1: suggesting he must have bitten it off himself, perhaps to
Speaker 1: force his hands to move, or as some have suggested
Speaker 1: may be to stifle a cry. Eager's body shows signs
Speaker 1: of vomiting blood, with Ury's autopsy noting signs of fluid
Speaker 1: in the lungs as well as bruises sustained by some
Speaker 1: kind of blunt trauma, and something found on Zena's back
Speaker 1: also catches the eye, a long, bright red bruise, the
Speaker 1: sort you might sustain, perhaps after being clubbed by a
Speaker 1: heavy object. Meanwhile, in a room not far away, Ury
Speaker 1: Yudin has been summoned by lead investigator lev Ivanov. Incredibly,
Speaker 1: yuden had been one of the last to learn of
Speaker 1: the rescue operation to find Datlov's team, having decided to
Speaker 1: recuperate in his hometown of emily Chevka before returning to
Speaker 1: spurred Lovsk, and now he was being given the somber
Speaker 1: task of sorting through all the team's personal belongings in
Speaker 1: order to assign them to their correct owner. He too,
Speaker 1: finds the picture of Zena in Eager's notebook, and manages
Speaker 1: a rise's smile when he finds a packet of cigarettes
Speaker 1: secretly stashed away in Alexander Kolovatov's bag. But back on
Speaker 1: kolatsiakl the search continues, and on March fifth, another body
Speaker 1: is discovered. Karelin had been searching a region in between
Speaker 1: where Eager and Zena were found when he hits something
Speaker 1: solid just below the surface. Once the snow had been cleared,
Speaker 1: Karelin recognizes the body as that of the much loved
Speaker 1: Rustick Slobodin. Unlike the others, Roostick seems almost properly dressed,
Speaker 1: but something else immediately catches Krellin's attention. There is a
Speaker 1: severe discoloring on the front of his head, while a
Speaker 1: patch of ice close to his mouth suggests that he
Speaker 1: had been alive for some time after he fell. Rustick's
Speaker 1: injuries were confirmed by the pathologist in an autopsy three
Speaker 1: days later as being potentially consistent with damage sustained from
Speaker 1: a blunt object. The frontal bone of his skull is
Speaker 1: found to be fractured, with severe hemorrhaging in the temple region,
Speaker 1: as if he had repeatedly been forced down onto his face.
Speaker 1: Rustis is the fifth body to be recovered, while four
Speaker 1: of Diatlov's team remained missing and the investigation has only
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