Secrets of the past cannot be forgotten. People remember them for centuries. Many are supplemented by new facts and become even more creepy and mysterious, but still alluring. One of these stories is the mystery of the Mountain of the Dead. The Dyatlov pass became widely known in 1959, when, under mysterious circumstances, tourists and skiers of the Dyatlov group died there.
A lot has been written about the deaths of nine people. Books and a film were published. In the latter, a version was put forward according to which people died during the research of the Soviet military and scientists who experimented with teleporting a person. Mountain of the Dead gave rise to hundreds of disputes. The craziest versions of what happened were developed and discussed. Some claimed that the UFO was to blame. Others attributed everything to a snowman or ghosts from the past. One thing was absolutely certain - a person has nothing to do with it. As it turned out later, the Mountain of the Dead got its name a very long time and not by accident. What moved people who decided to climb the mountain? Probably, the students of the Dyatlov group should initially have chosen a different route.
Mount Kholatchahl and the peak of Otorten are located on the ridge of the Belt Stone. Since ancient times, they were known to the Mansi people as a place that everyone should always avoid. Otorten translated into Russian sounds like “don’t go there”, and Holutchahl - “Mountain of the Dead”. It was on the pass between them in 1959 that a group of nine young people died.
The mystery of the Mountain of the Dead was known to the Mansi people from the very beginning of their existence. This people has a legend transmitted through generations. It tells that 13 thousand years ago there was a global flood. As a result of this, all people on the planet died, except for 11 representatives of this people. They climbed to the very top of Holutchahl in the hope of escape. But merciless waves carried people one by one. In the end, only two remained - a woman and a man. Only after this the waves died down and the water began to recede. After some time, the survivors descended into the valley. So the Mansi people were revived. Since then, this place has received the name "Mountain of the Dead" in memory of people who gave their lives to angry gods.
Researchers are especially interested in the fact that both then and in 1959, exactly nine people died. The Mansi people consider this number to be symbolic. For them, it means the end of the old life and the onset of a new one. According to legend, after the flood, shamans brought sacrifices to the mountain - they were animals in the amount of 9 pieces. However, apparently, this did not help.
Tourists of the Dyatlov group are not the only victims on this unfortunate pass. In total, this place claimed 27 lives. In the years 1960-1961, 9 geologists died in a plane crash. In 1961, 9 corpses of tourists from Leningrad were discovered there. More recently, in 2003, a helicopter with 9 passengers crashed over a mountain. People miraculously managed to survive. Why does this place attract death? What is his mystery, and what secrets does the mountain pass keep ? Whether there will ever be an exact answer to these questions is unknown.