WORSE THAN DYATLOV PASS: The Korovina group incident // One of them survived and told THE TRUTH

The story of the Korovina hiking group is not unlike that of the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident. What exactly happened remains a mystery to this day, surrounded by eerie rumours.
And, to make the story even more chilling, it has been recounted by the group’s only survivor in coldblooded detail...
So, what really happened that day in the mountains of South Siberia?
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[@ArchiesArchive]

Thank you guys for so many views! If you like this video, check out my other videos on Soviet mountaineers:

[@wargriffin5]

Don't go hiking in Russia. Got it! 😎👍

[@TeatroGrotesco]

I would hate to experience anything like what a Russian describes as "very cold."

[@HollyCat504]

As someone from Louisiana, please allow me to explain sticky fog. It’s so thick that it feels like you’re choking. It’s like when you’re drinking water and it goes down the wrong way…you start coughing and gasping for air. Same with this kind of fog. It also literally sticks to you. You can see it in your hair, it looks like a spiderweb. It makes your arms and legs feel heavy, like trying to run in the ocean.

[@oatmealman1586]

Remember fellas; if you're body suddenly starts feeling anxious, scared, and is telling you to get outbof wherever you are, listen to it. Your body has the instincts that kept your ancestors alive, and while it can't explain the reasoning behind them, it understands that they're important. Listen to your body or else you'll get a spot on the news.

[@theia1653]

Trust your instincts and if animals are behaving strangely or avoid an area, you should avoid it too.

[@autolicious]

Living in Newfoundland I feel qualified to describe "sticky" fog. It's fog where you can't really feel the moisture in the air but as you trudge along you find yourself getting wet. It tends to swirl around you as opposed to dissipating as you walk through it. It makes you feel uncomfortable and heavy and it feels oppressive to both your body and your spirits.

[@ixoraroxi]

My husband and I used to camp at several sites in British Columbia, Canada. In general we had a great time, but one particular campsite gave us different feeling. As soon as we settled up and sat down, there was this overwhelming and weird sensation of fear and uneasiness. We both felt it, so we packed everything back in our car and we didn't stay for the night.

[@joshm3484]

It does sound like hypothermia. People suffering from final stages of fatal hypothermia will act as if they're severely intoxicated. Not only do your movements become awkward and unsteady, but your thoughts also become incredibly confused. One of the saddest things about finding someone who has died of hypothermia is that right before they die, they feel warm and often start trying to remove clothing, ensuring their deaths.

[@jessd3107]

I was caught in a snow storm when I was 9 ...hyperthermia, frost bite hands, feet, ears, nose...had to wait a week to see if I could keep all my fingers n toes....the worst was when my hands and feet started to get warm enough for blood flow ....it felt like a thousand fire ants were biting them...got phenomena real bad coughed up blood for a few days...I never want to be that cold again ...you see things ...feel hot flashes....when you stop shivering you are in trouble....Bad memories ...God bless the people who didnt make it...

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I've travelled Australia a few times and I can tell you, in the middle of nowhere in the outback, you come across areas that suddenly turn "odd" and the feeling of danger and forbidding is overwhelming. I've experienced what I can only describe as otherworldly entities especially around dusk, where it suddenly felt like we had to get out of there fast and were in mortal danger. The areas are often beautiful and desolate and at first were peaceful and quite appealing, they completely changed vibe within minutes and almost always occurred around rock formations and/or water holes.

[@skeleton599]

God poor Valentina, imagine how terrifying that must’ve been seeing your companions going insane and dying at the same time being left completely alone.

[@Lecintel]

Wow, I didn't expect this story to be reported on KZbin, I lived in the same village as the girl who survived, I remember how whole village was shook by this story

[@evamg21]

Let's be honest: As somebody living in the mountains, I can tell you the fact that they didn't return immediately once it started snowing and the temperatures dropped beyond what they had the equipment for, they were dead. And anybody living in the mountains will tell you that. They should have known. It's like the first thing you learn when you step on a mountain: don't mess with bad weather, it will kill you!

[@deeponchaudhuri106]

As a high altitude medical doctor I do think that the cause of death is High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and/or High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). All symptoms like delirium, lack of hunger and thirst (even when the body is dehydrated), feeling very hot even in hypothermia (paradoxical hyperthermia). Pathogens causing encephalitis may also have spread from person to person, zoonotic infections, exposure to toxic chemicals from a natural or man-made source may have resulted in them take poor decisions in a harsh environment by reducing their physiological reserve to hypothermia. And as David Bradford has pointed out in his comment, it may have been Ergot toxicity.

[@itzhakadelson9506]

I grew up in Irkutsk, and hiked a lot near lake Baikal, including Snezhnaya river. Khamar-Daban is a very desolate place, and climate there is different from the rest of the area. Big masses of water rise with the air from lake Baikal and fall onto western slopes of Khamar-Daban, creating a unique climate, like cold wheather rainforests. I hiked there in the late summer, and even then the weather was very cold and rains could go for days and even weeks. Also I never hiked this specific area, I can tell you, that you need much more than 2400 calories a day to sustain yourself. Everyday hiking and fighting the cold require at least 4000 calories a day. And even then you can't really restore yourself fully. And it seems they met even harder conditions. Maybe it was a case of mountain sickness; although they were at low altitudes, extreme weather and insufficient nutrition could have contributed to their condition.

[@genevandenham7999]

I'm glad you pointed out why she was strict on what they carried. Some people make it out like she was inexperienced and neglectful when she was by far the opposite, very experienced and cared for her hikers.

[@godfroi10991]

I noticed the surviving hiker listed "Grains" among the foodstuffs the group was carrying. I wonder if Ergot toxicity could be the cause after ingestion of a shared meal? It would account for the seemingly bizarre symptoms of "Madness" & paranoia experienced by the group. One of the factors I find difficult to reconcile with the Hypothermia hypothesis, is that the entire group began experiencing symptoms within a very short time span.

[@Adam-un5bq]

Once in the Army, we were training in the wilds of North Carolina. Our unit got caught in a 2 day soaker and the Temps dropped quite low. We are all decked out in the best gear and roughly 25% of the group ended up with hypothermia.

[@billguyan1913]

There is a 15 mile long river about 20 miles from where I live in Scotland and there is a particular place on it that instils a strong sense of foreboding and uneasiness where no birds sing, to the extent that I move quickly through it. I mentioned this to someone who is also familiar with the river and he knew immediately the location, having had the same experiences.