Dyatlov was a final-year student at the Radio Technical Department of the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). The ambitious young man knew that he was facing his last chance to win an honorable decoration. At the same time, he had considerable experience in mountain climbing and was most likely planning an expedition to the Arctic, so he treated each previous trek as training.
Dyatlov was a final-year student at the Radio Technical Department of the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). The ambitious young man knew that he was facing his last chance to win an honorable decoration. At the same time, he had considerable experience in mountain climbing, and was most likely planning an expedition to the Arctic, so he treated each previous trek as training.
