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April 25, 2019, 07:57:15 AM
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Oh my Goodness - this is gold, Teddy. Well done!

So simple, and yet - it explains almost everything! It could have been written by one of the 9 themselves!! They headed for the treeline, just as the Author's party did.

What are we thinking, All??

Certainly explains leaving the tent as they did...I know there have been discrepancies about the weather and how cold it was....but you just can't predict weather at an elevated altitude like you can in a depression (valley) or at sea level.

The mountain changes the air pressure as air is forced up and there is no weather station on the peak. We can't know what the conditions were like that night - even though they were calm lower down.

I am not sure if trekking through the bad weather is what caused "the 3"'s injuries though?? Is it possible they were hurt at the Cedar?
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April 25, 2019, 08:38:24 AM
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Grigoriy Anisimovich Fedoseev and his guide Vasiliy Nikolaevich Mishtenko

.. We are ducking down in the manure. Vasiliy Nikolaevich pulls out an ax, cuts an icy mound, and he finds in fact sleds. On one of them is a tent, stove, saw, the rest are empty. Probably, the convoy, not reaching the pass by only two hundred meters, was caught by a blizzard. People managed to cut the straps on the reindeer, and they themselves fled to the taiga, for some reason without taking either a tent or a stove with them, without which, it seems, it is absolutely impossible to survive into this kind of cold. What happened to them further, it's scary to even think...

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... A muddy curtain of bad weather appears on the horizon ... We corral into the tent, huddled around the stove, where a faint light flickers a little, casting a pale glow on the gloomy, alert faces of people... from the north a snowstorm approached. And soon everything was whistling around, spinning in a mad whirlwind. Streaks of snowy dust flowed through the frozen slant; snow drifting ominously.

The tent is arched from the pressure of the wind. The stove has gone out. Firewood is over, the cold finds a gap, seeps inside. We are wrapped in warm clothes. It is impossible to fall asleep, but the conversation is not getting better... what will happen if the wind breaks our tent and we find ourselves face to face with a snowstorm on bare rocks, far from the forest?...

A snowdrift piled up heavily on the tent on the windward side, the wall bent dangerously, and soon the rope it the middle broke, unable to withstand the weight... The hanging snowdrift had already taken a third of the site away from us and continued to press from above, bending the crossbar. It was at that moment that a new ferocious squall hit, and the canvas wall broke in half. A mountain of snow fell on us.

 – Get dressed and go out! - Lebedev orders. A scuffle begins in the twilight, no one can find their belongings, you hear curses. The wind flaps the torn sides of the tent, throwing fistfuls of snow in our faces.
 – I say, get out! - Lebedev's voice is heard through the howl of the storm.
 – Presnikov, you are holding back everybody detain all.
 – I lost my hat, – he screams back.
 – Cover your head with a bag and get out! - orders Lebedev, wrapping a rope around himself and passing the end to his comrades.

The snowstorm brings down on us all its might. The chill is blinding the eyes, burns the nostrils. Lebedev is ahead, behind him, holding the rope, the others are walking. Moving almost blindly, it is difficult to get to the slope. It becomes easier to walk, because under your feet the descent and snowstorm are somewhat quieter here. We go at random among the small rocks, along hollows with steep slopes. Obviously, we descend down to the ravine, where there must be a forest, which means there will be a fire. We don’t dream about anything else... Only an hour later, the steepness of the descent broke, the placers and the rocks were left behind. Smooth drifted snow under our feet, slippery as ice ... We go down the ravine even lower and notice freshly cut stumps, and then tents are shown. Well done Kirill Rodionovich - how confidently he led us to the camp! And now we are at a great fun bonfire that has given us strength and good spirits. The ropes are untied, there is laughter...

... On the pass we saw snow mounds, like dunes of oblong shape, located in the direction of the wind. And where our tent stood, a frozen mound with an overhanging snow cornice towered ... We did not excavate the mound, it was late, and the snow hardened so much that it could only be cut with axes. We will do it tomorrow ...
 

April 25, 2019, 08:42:26 AM
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The book was presented to my attention in the context of source that could have inspired the staging of the tent. The book is published in 1958.
You know me - I don't have a theory, neither do I think that is this is how or why they abandoned the tent. I am merely publishing findings I find interesting or pertinent to the case.

I am not sure if trekking through the bad weather is what caused "the 3"'s injuries though?? Is it possible they were hurt at the Cedar?

Of course not.
 

April 25, 2019, 10:31:22 AM
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Wait - "of course not" to them being injured trekking thru the bad weather or "of course not" to them being hurt at the Cedar??


 

April 25, 2019, 10:44:21 AM
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Wait - "of course not" to them being injured trekking thru the bad weather or "of course not" to them being hurt at the Cedar??
Bad weather didn't cause neither of the injuries. Nothing supports uncharacteristically bad for the region and season weather.
The book is something mulle on. The post is about somebody reading what bad weather can be like and staging the deaths to look like in the book.
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April 25, 2019, 10:47:55 AM
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I am giving you the book. You choose what context to use it in, or what theory to support with it.