We've all heard about the Dyatlov Pass incident of 1959, but I had not heard about the 1993 Hamar-Daban pass incident till just now.
The Hamar-Daban mountain range is in Siberia, not far from Lake Lake Baikal. In August 1993 six members of a seven person hiking group died under very mysterious circumstances, and the lone survivor, who was 17 at the time, wandered alone through the wilderness for four days from 5 August to 9 August before reaching people. In a 2018 interview, she remained rather vague about what happened, but said was happened was "like in a horror movie" (translated with Yandex):
<The wind was so strong that we were sliding down instead of walking. Suddenly Sasha fell. He was foaming at the mouth. Korovin sat down next to him, hugged him, and that was all. I didn't get up again. And such a madhouse began. And I still don't understand how long it lasted. Like a horror movie. Everyone falls, everyone is bleeding, foaming at the mouth, bleeding from the nose.<The only survivor, Valentina Utochenko, 17, later wrote in a statement how, during the difficult descent, carried out in near zero visibility, one of the members of the group was struck down hard, foaming at the mouth and bleeding from the ears. The rest of the group shortly developed the same symptoms.<The six members who died had done so almost simultaneously, after rolling around on the ground, tearing their clothes off and clutching their throats. The young woman was left alone. Nearly unconscious, she navigated the power lines until she reached the river at the bottom, where she was rescued by a group of kayaking tourists.Beyond the Dyatlov mystery: 2 other creepy tragedies in the Russian mountains - Russia Beyond: https://archive.ph/08n6y /
https://web.archive.org/web/20210204110631/https://www.rbth.com/history/330020-russia-dyatlov-pass-mystery-analoguesThis seems at odds with the official cause of death given after the autopsies, which was hypothermia.
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