Part 2 of our Special on Dyatlov Pass: On January 27  1959  a group of outdoor enthusiasts  known as “tourists” in Russia  consisting of seven men and two women  mostly students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnical Institute (which is now the Ural Federal University) left the village of Vizhay in the northern Ural Mountains on a two-week ski trek  through a region called Sverdlovsk Oblast  the “gateway to Siberia” in Russia