Bardin's letters to Maslennikov
19-02-2021
If the search continues, and you are there as a chief consultant, then give an order to look not in the ravine, but at the top. If Kolevatov was such an erudite, as Yuri Yudin said about him, then from some moment of retreat he had to go sharply upward, gaining height. Perhaps even from the fire. And then not along the ravine, but sideways, on the slope. It is possible that he and those who were with him circled the ridge for quite a long time (it turns out that even in such weather one can still walk for several hours), and then fell into some hollow and tried to either make a fire or survive somehow. In a word, now it is necessary to search for bodies not by thoroughly combing the places already passed, but on the contrary - to greatly expand the range of search, considering that they might have lived for several hours and tried to go upwards. It would be best to use dogs again.
