According to residents of the villages of Ilma and Puncha, wind speed reached 50 mps. The wind was nasty, but blew in the back. They climbed the plateau on the northern path. It was the beginning of the route, they had enough provisions, trekking the pass was planned for the next day. There is no explanation for their behavior. In the diaries there are no records explaining their decision. Despite the failing light of the short January day, they all started climbing the plateau. Judging by the film later developed, it was snowing. They passed lake Seydozero, climbed up river Chivruay and pitched a tent in the woods with hot supper. January 26 was a frosty day (-24C or -11F). On that day they went through Elmorayok pass and set out for night at the border the forest. On January 25, 1973, ten students from the Kuybyshev Aviation Institute (KuAI), the leaders Mihail Kuznetsov and Valentin Zemlyanov, started the route along the Lovozero tundra (the "tundra" is the mountains of the Kola Peninsula).
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