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« Last post by Teddy on Today at 07:55:40 AM »My report for the last expedition I called "The 66 year anniversary" is long overdue. What happens when I get back is not that the affairs of the "other life" take me away, but because visiting Yekaterinburg and the Pass flairs up a lot of ideas, discussions, the Russians keep an eye on everything and we have to answer questions and discuss further actions. I made so many new friends. I had to send them books, give interviews... and I have been working on the case ever since because I have new questions. I also have the strange feeling that by publishing the photos and videos I have done my due diligence, but I now understand that I have to put them into context. I will do my best to give you a narrative.
I said in my manifesto that sleuthing this case alone is impossible. You need friends in both directions, journalists with access to the archives, and then mountaineers to go on expeditions with. The latter have to be obsessed with the case because no one wants to go to the Urals and spend 7 days scanning with a metal detector and digging up in one place infested with mosquitos the size of drones with a good chance the weather will rain the whole time. But this is the only time when you can actually find something in the ground. While we are digging in the archives metaphorically the activity in the forest is literally unearthing evidence. This is what I am going to do in 3 months, I am going back. I will announce the new expedition on the anniversary of the funerals of the last four, May 12.
This last expedition was hectic. I made a friend from Serov who I went to the pass with on a snowmobile (excruciating), and he also bought me the sub zero suit you can see me on the snowmobile.
Dmitry Kireev made it possible for me to be on the pass and the conference in Yekaterinburg in a very short span, not taking the train but personally chauffeuring me back and forth. We were giving interview left and right about why we do what we do, even someone from abroad, what can be done at this point of time... the usual.
We helped dragging with the snowmobiles the tent replica for the second expedition. Our paths crossed twice. They did all the experiments on location. You can read what happened on the night of Feb 1-2. https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025#1feb
In the meantime I was breaking the record for number of hours spent on a snowmobile on the way to and back from the Dyatlov Pass - 14. Because of the load for the other expedition we were slow on Lozva, and many times almost falling through the ice. For example Valery Anyamov said he won't risk going on the river but going though the forest. This was not the case with the Dyatlov group in 1959 because we are talking snowmobiles. The second expedition also had their backpacks dragged with snowmobiles. They had three tents. Two were modern, one to sleep in and the other, very cool spherical one is the common space where the cooking and meeting. The replica of the Dyatlov tent was once pitched near the cedar in honor of my theory and to test the stove replica, that it is possible for 10 people to sleep with the Dyatlov stove suspended above their heads. Then the replica was taken on the slope where it was found on Feb 26, 1959. There they did all kind of experiments. Here is link again: https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025#1feb
Our party had a different fate. We were 4 snowmobiles: Kireev and me, his daughter and her husband, and two snowmobiles with his friends, firefighters paratroopers. The firefighters kept telling us that we are late. Kireev's daughter is a very tough kid, but as a newly weds, she gave her husband the chance to drive their snowmobile. They tipped over, she hit her head (thank god for the helmet) but while on the ground she scraped the snow and saw blue ice underneath. Why is this important. Karelin keeps saying that he remembers blue ice on the slope in 1959. he attributes this to a thermal wave from military tests and says he has never seen one ant other place. It could be from underground water, but it is still there. Not everywhere though. We arrived to the pass around 4 pm. It was cold and gloomy. All the cameras, GoPro, Sony, all of them, froze after 5 mins. My Olympus-Tough showed 0% battery. When I took it out back in the hut it was 100%. The photos you see here were taken with a phone for 5 mins, and then it froze. I didn't know if I can't move because of the many hours on the snowmobile or because it was really cold. I was shaking like a leaf. We turned back. The other expedition was still in Ilycha's hut. When we stopped I had to pee. When I unzipped the suit and then put it back I realized that if I go inside I won't leave. This means I am abandoning my party and joining the other party but my visa was shorter than I could go back on a train. I didn't even go inside to say goodby because I would start crying. There was no room for both expeditions in lycha's hut, so we headed back to Ushma, where we left the firefighters and continue to Vizhay where we had our luggage. Kireev's daughter, Liz, couldn't walk without support. We spent 14 hours on snowmobiles in -30°C. She went to bed but her father woke her up to drink hot tee. She was fine. In the morning it was apparent she got frostbite on her chicks although she wore a mask under the helmet. Her husband's frostbite showed after he washed his face and the skin on his nose fell off. That night I saw ghosts while wide awake. The house where we spent the night was next to a Vizhay shaman rock. I told my story in this video while I was walking in the cemetery where Zolotaryov and Krivonischneko are buried. I am posting the link at the bottom.
With Kireev we found the morgue in Ivdel, the Zone N-240. https://dyatlovpass.com/66-years-anniversary#morgue
Back in Yekaterinburg I met many people at the conference. Natalya Varsegova flew from Moscow. I hugged living contemporaries of the events - Karelin, Bartolomey, Yakimenko. They are 90 years old. I also met other researchers who attended the conference. We put flowers at the cemetery and UPI. I gave interviews to the press, TV and radio, signed books.
My photos. Note that we had a priest on the pass. We became friends. His wife is the one that made me a Teddy Bear:
https://dyatlovpass.com/66-years-anniversary
The other expedition diary with photos:
https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025
YouTube playlist with videos from January-February 2025
Video where the suitcase with your tools donated by Tena Bellovich is being delivered to Valery Anyamov's house:
Video where I am talking to Valiry Anyamov:
I discussed the life camera on the Dyatlov Pass with Oleg Demyanenko. He took down notes and promised to research what will it take.
You asked me to walk around in socks etc. They did that, there is always someone walking in socks every year on February 2, but this doesn't prove anything. It all depends on the person, and even if someone manages to do it it doesn't mean another person, or this same person in another situation would have the same outcome. Pigoltsina says they were doomed the moment they abandoned the tent. https://dyatlovpass.com/pigoltsina#conclusion
Liz brought an old fashioned Polaroid to the Pass. Back home she gave me a very dark Polaroid photo and said - this is for you, a souvenir. I thanked, but then looked and the photo and started bargaining if she could give me another one because this was dark and could only make out a shape very similar to the ghosts I saw at the Vizhay shaman rock. Liz didn't understand why. I said - I can't see a damn thing on this photo, who is this? She said - this is you.
This is the moment I decided to buy a cross.
I said in my manifesto that sleuthing this case alone is impossible. You need friends in both directions, journalists with access to the archives, and then mountaineers to go on expeditions with. The latter have to be obsessed with the case because no one wants to go to the Urals and spend 7 days scanning with a metal detector and digging up in one place infested with mosquitos the size of drones with a good chance the weather will rain the whole time. But this is the only time when you can actually find something in the ground. While we are digging in the archives metaphorically the activity in the forest is literally unearthing evidence. This is what I am going to do in 3 months, I am going back. I will announce the new expedition on the anniversary of the funerals of the last four, May 12.
This last expedition was hectic. I made a friend from Serov who I went to the pass with on a snowmobile (excruciating), and he also bought me the sub zero suit you can see me on the snowmobile.
Dmitry Kireev made it possible for me to be on the pass and the conference in Yekaterinburg in a very short span, not taking the train but personally chauffeuring me back and forth. We were giving interview left and right about why we do what we do, even someone from abroad, what can be done at this point of time... the usual.
We helped dragging with the snowmobiles the tent replica for the second expedition. Our paths crossed twice. They did all the experiments on location. You can read what happened on the night of Feb 1-2. https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025#1feb
In the meantime I was breaking the record for number of hours spent on a snowmobile on the way to and back from the Dyatlov Pass - 14. Because of the load for the other expedition we were slow on Lozva, and many times almost falling through the ice. For example Valery Anyamov said he won't risk going on the river but going though the forest. This was not the case with the Dyatlov group in 1959 because we are talking snowmobiles. The second expedition also had their backpacks dragged with snowmobiles. They had three tents. Two were modern, one to sleep in and the other, very cool spherical one is the common space where the cooking and meeting. The replica of the Dyatlov tent was once pitched near the cedar in honor of my theory and to test the stove replica, that it is possible for 10 people to sleep with the Dyatlov stove suspended above their heads. Then the replica was taken on the slope where it was found on Feb 26, 1959. There they did all kind of experiments. Here is link again: https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025#1feb
Our party had a different fate. We were 4 snowmobiles: Kireev and me, his daughter and her husband, and two snowmobiles with his friends, firefighters paratroopers. The firefighters kept telling us that we are late. Kireev's daughter is a very tough kid, but as a newly weds, she gave her husband the chance to drive their snowmobile. They tipped over, she hit her head (thank god for the helmet) but while on the ground she scraped the snow and saw blue ice underneath. Why is this important. Karelin keeps saying that he remembers blue ice on the slope in 1959. he attributes this to a thermal wave from military tests and says he has never seen one ant other place. It could be from underground water, but it is still there. Not everywhere though. We arrived to the pass around 4 pm. It was cold and gloomy. All the cameras, GoPro, Sony, all of them, froze after 5 mins. My Olympus-Tough showed 0% battery. When I took it out back in the hut it was 100%. The photos you see here were taken with a phone for 5 mins, and then it froze. I didn't know if I can't move because of the many hours on the snowmobile or because it was really cold. I was shaking like a leaf. We turned back. The other expedition was still in Ilycha's hut. When we stopped I had to pee. When I unzipped the suit and then put it back I realized that if I go inside I won't leave. This means I am abandoning my party and joining the other party but my visa was shorter than I could go back on a train. I didn't even go inside to say goodby because I would start crying. There was no room for both expeditions in lycha's hut, so we headed back to Ushma, where we left the firefighters and continue to Vizhay where we had our luggage. Kireev's daughter, Liz, couldn't walk without support. We spent 14 hours on snowmobiles in -30°C. She went to bed but her father woke her up to drink hot tee. She was fine. In the morning it was apparent she got frostbite on her chicks although she wore a mask under the helmet. Her husband's frostbite showed after he washed his face and the skin on his nose fell off. That night I saw ghosts while wide awake. The house where we spent the night was next to a Vizhay shaman rock. I told my story in this video while I was walking in the cemetery where Zolotaryov and Krivonischneko are buried. I am posting the link at the bottom.
With Kireev we found the morgue in Ivdel, the Zone N-240. https://dyatlovpass.com/66-years-anniversary#morgue
Back in Yekaterinburg I met many people at the conference. Natalya Varsegova flew from Moscow. I hugged living contemporaries of the events - Karelin, Bartolomey, Yakimenko. They are 90 years old. I also met other researchers who attended the conference. We put flowers at the cemetery and UPI. I gave interviews to the press, TV and radio, signed books.
My photos. Note that we had a priest on the pass. We became friends. His wife is the one that made me a Teddy Bear:
https://dyatlovpass.com/66-years-anniversary
The other expedition diary with photos:
https://dyatlovpass.com/alekseenkov-winter-2025
YouTube playlist with videos from January-February 2025
Video where the suitcase with your tools donated by Tena Bellovich is being delivered to Valery Anyamov's house:
Video where I am talking to Valiry Anyamov:
I discussed the life camera on the Dyatlov Pass with Oleg Demyanenko. He took down notes and promised to research what will it take.
You asked me to walk around in socks etc. They did that, there is always someone walking in socks every year on February 2, but this doesn't prove anything. It all depends on the person, and even if someone manages to do it it doesn't mean another person, or this same person in another situation would have the same outcome. Pigoltsina says they were doomed the moment they abandoned the tent. https://dyatlovpass.com/pigoltsina#conclusion
Liz brought an old fashioned Polaroid to the Pass. Back home she gave me a very dark Polaroid photo and said - this is for you, a souvenir. I thanked, but then looked and the photo and started bargaining if she could give me another one because this was dark and could only make out a shape very similar to the ghosts I saw at the Vizhay shaman rock. Liz didn't understand why. I said - I can't see a damn thing on this photo, who is this? She said - this is you.
This is the moment I decided to buy a cross.
