The Khamar-Daban Incident

In August 1993, a hiking group led by Lyudmila Korovina entered the Khamar-Daban mountains near Lake Baikal. Days of rain, cold, wind, and exhaustion ended with six people dead on a bare mountain slope and one teenage survivor walking out alone. The official explanation was hypothermia, but the survivor’s description of convulsions, bleeding, panic, and sudden collapse has kept the incident unresolved for decades.