Did they feel the tent was worth saving?

[GlennM]

Another investigator teaches me that the Blinov expedition experienced a burned tent. They did not abort their trek, but rather rendered the tent into sheets which were used individually to make snow shelters for the rest of their hike.

The standard canon for DPI supposes the hikers were trapped in the tent in a slab slide and cut their way out.  They left the area and the worst happened. So here is where I am confused. On the one hand, if the tent was damaged beyond repair, assuming  they had cutting knives in hand, why not cut it up for personal protection?  On the other hand, if they thought they could effect a repair on such a badly ripped tent, then why risk life and limb getting so far from it with so little personal protection? Any ideas?

[Axelrod]

The standard canon for DPI supposes ************* So here is where I am confused. ***** Any ideas?

It is way for any canons.... not especially standard.

[GlennM]

Doesn't help. Try again, please.

[Osi]

In the conditions of fear, panic, uncertainty (you are suddenly covered in a closed area and you cannot understand what is happening) and darkness, it seems understandable that they had to cut the tent to get out of the tent that collapsed because of the sign.

The first task is to go down to the tree line and light a fire, and return in the daylight to fix the collapsed and cut tent.

The clothes seem sufficient to spend a night by the fire in the forest. (Sufficient in emergency exit conditions) We witness the sale of clothes in the forest and some of them are naked. This situation indicates that they have seen each other die.

[GlennM]

Osi, I like your analysis and it agrees with my point of view. Cutting the tent so severely in order to escape assumes they had sufficient material to actually mend it. Since I believe Igor and others were stuffing holes with a jacket etc., before the calamity, their decision to savage the tent was certainly extreme.

I thought that the expedition would end when the tent was damaged, but others insist this would not be the case. It would be inconvenient, but not crippling. The unknown compelling force must certainly have been the weather.

Your post made more sense to me than another response I read. Appreciated.

[Axelrod]

This is probably not about Blinov's group, but about Sogrin's group.
Sogrin writes: On the second or third day our tent burned down, and we were forced to live the remaining 20 days using old taiga methods.

This is the first time I've heard about using pieces of a tent. I think it's a fabrication.

[GlennM]

Axelrod, thank you for the clarification and the opinion.If you believe that cutting the tent for its cloth is a fiction, then certainly Igor would not consider doing so.because it is not agreed upon practice. Thank you.

[Ziljoe]

There is speculation on other sites that the tent had holes, been cut and stitched a number of times on other hikes .

If the tent had a floor , which I think it did , then you would still have a tent of sorts to use in an A frame configuration, especially in the forest areas with trees to strap a ridge line. Holes, leantoos could also  be dug and the remaining canvas used as a roof. Not ideal , but the cutting of a tent does not mean that the rest of the material is not a useful resource, just more inconvenient?.

However , I don't think cutting a tent on a mountain slope in the cold and most likely the dark , is a casual decision. It seems to be a deliberate choice and course of action to exit the tent , it does suggest the tent failed or the tent collapsed. The hikers,  having been able to exit the tent , irrelevant as to why, now can't stay at the tent or retrieve any other survival gear , equipment or clothing.  Its the fact that they can't take anything more from the tent that makes me think the tent was the least of their worries .