Diaries

[sarapuk]

I don't know of course, but I'd suspect, that it differs from person to person. Some might have left the booklet at home, because they never wrote something down on the track anyway. They might have disappeared and disintegrated over the years somewhere in the wilderness.

I just don't think they are classified material somewhere. Yet, that's just an opinion, nothing more.

What do you mean by hoax? Do you think along the lines of diaries showing up, like the so called "Hitler Diaries" back somewhen?

I always believed the evening Otorten was some kind of group fun, maybe even meant for their friends back home. I've as well wondered, if the dates we have really are sufficient. I mean, the last diary date and the evening Otorten suggest, that they died in the night from Feb 1st to Feb 2nd. But maybe they predated the evening Otorten? Or they just missed one evening of diary writing, because everyone was too exhausted. That would give us complete other timelines.

The Evening Otorten leaflet was found fixed to the tent near the entrance. That must be an important clue, surely.

Wasn't that fact uncertain, some saying it was fixed, others said it wasn't, when the tent was found? I read through some of the case files (discovery of tent site, survey of the scene, found items and the part on the leaflet itself), there's no mention of it being pinned. If it indeed is part of the case files, it must be part of a testimony. Anyone know, who reported the leaflet being pinned to the tent?

I've seen it referenced as being fastened to the tent near the entrance. The ref to found in the dyatlovpass.com site.

[Hunter]

A non-disclosure agreement for a criminal case ceases to be valid upon completion of the investigation—whether the criminal case is closed or transferred to court.

[GlennM]

The one thing that came through loud and clear in the criminal case was that there was no criminal, as in attacker(s). The fact that the hikers got a late start, camped in an exposed location subject to violent weather and that the tent was cut from within was enough to satisfy the authorities. This saved them the trouble of looking for escaped convicts and the like.

I have a skepticism about the Evening Otorten, specifically when it was supposed to be written. Surely it would be authored by no more than two people, and most likely just one person. I think it is nonsense on stilts to believe that this leaflet would be anywhere outside the tent. Who benefits from that? 

[Ziljoe]

So, if we understand this correctly. Once they found the first dead hikers and the state of the tent , those in charge started to ask questions and take statements from everyone involved at the scene.

The most obvious suspects were the Mansi.

Obviously anyone could have read the diaries when they were first found and those involved could have said anything they wanted , especially over these 60 plus years. No one has come forward to say anything other than the media.

It looks like there's nothing new to be revealed and the conclusion speaks of all that could be found .

[sarapuk]

The one thing that came through loud and clear in the criminal case was that there was no criminal, as in attacker(s). The fact that the hikers got a late start, camped in an exposed location subject to violent weather and that the tent was cut from within was enough to satisfy the authorities. This saved them the trouble of looking for escaped convicts and the like.

I have a skepticism about the Evening Otorten, specifically when it was supposed to be written. Surely it would be authored by no more than two people, and most likely just one person. I think it is nonsense on stilts to believe that this leaflet would be anywhere outside the tent. Who benefits from that?

Well there was no findings of what actually happened. Nothing could be proved. Well we have to go by what we know. And what we know is that the Evening Otorten was probably the last thing that was written and it was fastened to the tent near the entrance.

[Hunter]

It's unknown when "Evening Otorten" was painted. But it's unlikely it was painted on a slope. It's certain it was painted after Kolevatov abandoned his sled for transporting goods.

[sarapuk]

It's unknown when "Evening Otorten" was painted. But it's unlikely it was painted on a slope. It's certain it was painted after Kolevatov abandoned his sled for transporting goods.

But why was it fastened to the tent on the slope?

[GlennM]

You guys can't be serious about this, are you? its not about a sheet of paper on the tent, its about the tent on the sheet of paper!