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0:00 Domodedovo airport 0:45 Preparing for the trip 1:10 On the airplane Moscow - Vladikavkaz 1:30 Vladikavkaz 1:56 Travel agency Tourism Ossetia 2:30 First excursion: Karmadon, Dargavs, Midagrabin 4:10 Karmadon Gorge 4:50 Sergei Bodrov. Tragedy in the Karmadon Gorge 8:40 Oh my God, what a beauty! 9:25 Let’s go further. Zoroastrianism. 10:30 The village of Karmadon Our choice finally fell on the travel agency Tourism Ossetia. I contacted the guys from Tourism Ossetia via Whatsapp. As a result, three excursions were planned. We were going to visit three remarkable places in the mountains: KARMADON, DARGAVS, and MIDAGRABIN. The Karmadon Gorge, or, another name, the Genaldon Gorge, is located at an altitude of 750 to 1200 meters above sea level. Genaldon - translated from Ossetian means a river in a hemp gorge. However, we have not checked whether this name corresponds to reality. A little further upstream, another river joins the Genaldon, the Kolka, which in Ossetian means a cliff, a rocky coast. And in the upper reaches of the gorge there are two glaciers: Kolka and Mayli. In the fall of 2002, the famous Russian director and actor Sergei Bodrov came to Vladikavkaz with his film crew to shoot just one scene of his movie The Courier. On September 18, the film crew arrived in Vladikavkaz. On September 20, the group was supposed to go to the Karmadon Gorge to shoot the scene. That day, the filmmakers waited a long time for transportation to take them to the mountains, and the start of work had to be postponed from nine in the morning to one in the afternoon. This delay cost the lives of everyone who was on the set that day. Shooting continued until seven in the evening, when work had to stop due to the lack of daylight. The group gathered the equipment and prepared to return to the city. And at this time, at 8 p.m., a block of the hanging glacier with a volume of about 8 million cubic meters fell from the eastern spur of the mountain Dzhimarai Khokh from a height of 4350 meters and fell on the rear part of the Kolka glacier. This resulted in a fatal ice collapse and a mudslide. The total volume of the moving ice-rock mass reached 130 million cubic meters, its width was about 200 meters and its length more than 11 kilometers. The main part of the flow ended at the crevice of the Karmadon Gate. But at least 10 million cubic meters flowed through the gate. The mudslide swept down the river valley at a speed of 150 - 200 km/h, crushing everything in its path. Escape was absolutely impossible! The mudslide completely covered the Karmadon Gorge, where Sergey Bodrov and his film crew were, in just 20 minutes. 125 people became victims of the disaster. Within hours after the tragedy became known, almost all the residents of the surrounding villages arrived to help. After a three-month rescue operation, only nineteen bodies were found. For the next two years, volunteers worked every day at the crash site. Right on the glacier, they set up a camp called Hope. Hoping that someone could survive by hiding in the tunnel. Here you can see the top of the tunnel arch. As you can see, it is completely filled with rocks... of course, it was not realistic to escape here... the hopes were not to be fulfilled... Oh my god, what a beauty! What power, harmony and strength Clear air, clean rivers Ossetia has given us so generously... Mountain gorges of the highest beauty Crystal waters of gushing rapids Alpine meadows of tender grass Stones and ice of austere temples LINKS #travel #travelvlog #traveling #travelblogger #placestovisit #whattosee #russia
