By Will Stewart
PUBLISHED:22:41 GMT, 22 December 2012| UPDATED:04:15 GMT, 23 December 2012
Waving their families goodbye, the four men were in high spirits as they loaded their jeep and set off on a much-anticipated adventure holiday.
Their destination was a land from another time, a largely unpenetrated corner of eastern Siberia roamed by bears and wolves, where sightings of yeti-like beasts are not uncommon and only the hardiest of explorers dare to tread.
What happened next to the four Russian travellers is a mystery only just beginning to yield its secrets. And the story of their four-month ordeal has gripped and appalled their country in equal measure.
Baldly, the facts are these: Two of the men returned alive, one is still missing, while the fourth man – 44-year-old Andrei Kurochina – was found dead in strange circumstances.
At first it was assumed he had simply perished in the extreme cold. But then the shocking truth began to emerge. Police discovered he had been cannibalised and that his flesh quite possibly was eaten by his best friend, Alexei Gorulenko, and fellow adventurer Alexander Abdullayev, to keep themselves alive.
Abdullayev, 37, insists they ate Kurochina only after he died from natural causes. But the police suspect otherwise and have launched a murder investigation.
At her home in Volsk, southern Russia, Kurochina’s widow Olga is struggling to make sense of it all, while across town her husband’s friend Gorulenko is back with his family, recovering from his ordeal, and saying nothing.
‘I am in contact with his wife but not him,’ said Olga. ‘Her Alexei is alive – but, believe me, she is suffering no less than me.
‘I can’t bring myself to speak to Alexei yet. I’m not ready to hear what he can tell me and he can’t open up to me. I find it too painful to even think what I feel about him now.
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