Two friends and amateur alpinists were resting at a tourist base located in the Azau Glade in the Caucasian Mountains, when they decided to take a walk on Mount Elbrus, without telling the rest of the people in the party. They used the hanging rope bridge and reached the "Mir" station at an altitude of 3500 meters above sea level. The distance left to the summit of Elbrus was 2 kilometers. But the men had decided not to climb to the top and had opted in going to another destination point called "Shelter Eleven" where friends from Leningrad were present. But only one of the men reached "Shelter Eleven" with the hairs on his head turned ashen gray apparently from shock. He told a harrowing and unbelievable story on how his friend had vanished before his eyes. They had reached an area at about 300 meters below "Shelter Eleven" when they saw several strange humanoid figures standing near a similarly strange barrel-shaped object that the men took for an alpinist's cabin. His friend was walking slower and was lagging behind and when he turned around to call his friend he saw an amazing sight, which caused his hair to turn white from shock. His friend suddenly began to curve and stretch as if made out of rubber, becoming extremely thin and swiftly stretching upwards. In a fraction of a second everything vanished, including the strange humanoid figures and the barrel-shaped object. The alpinist rushed to the location to help his friend only to find his climbing axe stuck into the dense snow. Footprints from his lost friend were visible on the snow and suddenly stop in mid stride.

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