Yeti. Russia

Annie looked forward to those summer holidays, like manna from heaven. In January, the girl was 16 years old and for the first time her parents, obsessed with the profession of geologists had to take her on an expedition to the Altai. Friendly family lived in Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk, and every year Nuth, as everyone called her love, we had to go all summer in the Krasnodar region, to the older generation could go into the mountains or into the forest in search of valuable minerals.

Unlike her peers spare time the girl spent playing with a collection of colorful and variegated stones. I loved to admire how refracted the sun's rays between the crystal faces of quartz crystal, stroking the smooth side of the treasure of big beryl-aquamarine, build houses for dolls made of fragments of light mica Muscovite.

Even in 8th grade she decided that subsequent to the end of school life, will dedicate the mysterious science of chemistry. Intentions Ania are unable to reason even the incident one of the student labs. Enterprising fond of chemical experiments then managed to endure of the lab room the entire school supply of lead sulfate and of potassium iodide and mix them, first dissolved in water, in the depths of a huge glass Cup. The resulting experiment bright yellow "Golden rain" of crystals, she gave a classmate for the precious metal, and incredibly proud of his feat.

The anger of the teacher, provoronili the machinations of chemistry, resulted in a series of fatty twos in the diary, but with your dream, be sure to open a new element for the periodic table Annie Anderson never broke up. Trip to Altai Krai seemed to her a solid rainbow holiday: Hiking in the woods, camp at the foot of the mountains, swimming in lakes, cooking in a pot on a fire, songs under a guitar and endless conversation until the first morning stars.

The Republic of Gorny Altai was famous for the stunningly beautiful nature in the wild places still intact and the countless treasures of minerals under the ground. Parents had to find traces of a rare colored tourmalines with a high concentration of iron in the composition. This type of mineral is very needed for research work on space and the supply of important raw materials in the Novosibirsk lab is visibly thinned. With a small backpack on his back girl walking proudly from the car, brought them to a place to camp on the shore of lake Teletskoye. They had to change the party of geologists who go to the deserved vacation.

Expectations groupies chemistry were met by 100 percent: the enchanting views of the surrounding area, the current massive tents, consisting of 3 bedrooms, a long table with wooden benches for the common feasts, small power station, supplying light and other household amenities. At the General meeting it was decided that Annie is still too early to go to the outskirts of the forest, so she was entrusted to the least important mission, to meet a team of geologists with a hot dinner.

A couple of weeks passed like one day. Cooking a hearty soup in a bucket of potatoes and several banks of corned beef, crumbly porridge with the same meat stock, some fresh vegetables and canned compote. Nuth soon began to feel that her work is too monotonous and want something to get excited ustavshih the evening geologists. The decision to go along the shore of the lake to the North to pick berries and to cook jam for tea, the benefit of the promised bag of sugar manufacture of a large batch of Goodies came to the camp to cook spontaneously.

Usually every day to help remain on duty one of adults, but this time, geologists had too far outing in the woods are all gone. Workaholic watered in the morning, hot tea with sandwiches, wrapped expedition with Packed lunch, Annie quickly made a simple soup on the scheme, I mixed the noodles with the stew, wrapped the dinner in 2 thick blankets and slipped into the woods. The path wound between the trees-giants, occasionally came across bushes of wild raspberries and blackberries. Nuth immediately wanted to collect various berries and pamper a group jam mix, she didn't even notice that she moved away from the tents at a distance more than 10 km.

After another halt we came to a clearing with a generous scattering of bright red and inky purple berries.

Joyful discovery girl rushed forward and in the next moment, suddenly flew into the dark hole. Narrow gorges in the Altai mountains is not news, in the region often squirmy earthquake, leaving behind such here surprises. The last thing he heard Annie, was a painful crack of bones, and then the failure, strength and consciousness left her.

Annie woke up from what someone was hard and hoarsely breathed. Razumkov eyelids, immediately with a fright they screwed up. Directly above her stood a furry creature of great height, which screwed up his big blue eyes and intently raised bushy eyebrows. Humanoid monster picked up the girl on hands with tal deftly climb up with one foot.

Scared to death Nyte glanced at the swollen, blackened foot, immediately realized that no fracture has not done, and again fell into the thick darkness between consciousness and the abyss. Her massive Savior was moving through the woods in short rushes, and then hiding in the thick bushes and shady trees.

In a few hours she again came out of unconsciousness and saw a black sky and a scattering of shiny silver stars over your head. In my head frantically raced thoughts: who is he, Bigfoot, forest savage, Bigfoot, as it was called geologists, telling evening stories around the campfire. Working in the forest people had to cross with the mysterious neighbors in the woods, but every time their tale of the meeting was made to the imagination and soon all the stories happily forgotten.

Altai Evdoshka handed Annie overgrown with fur the palm, on which lay a handful of large berries. To abandon BlackBerry adventurer did not. Parents repeatedly told her that this berry is able to quench the thirst and contains a lot of carbohydrates. To eat now clearly will not be superfluous. Sweet tart berries somehow slightly smelled of smoke and hair, but she gratefully nodded her forest nurse and gladly swallowed the BlackBerry.

Then they moved to the camp silently and quickly. Nut embraced by the neck of the hairy Yeti and she was warm and comfortable, even the pain in broken leg gradually subsided. Shortly ahead of the path he heard the snapping of branches and flashed the lights of the lanterns, the whole team of geologists diligently scoured the forest in search of girls.

In a few minutes, taiga Bigfoot put a young lady on a clearing covered with soft emerald moss and rustled dry branches to attract attention. Geologists immediately wary, stopped, and then moved to the sounds. Assessing the situation, a huge snow man turned back again to the fugitive and disappeared into the forest. But after a minute she hugged her parents, hastily constructed for her a stretcher, carried to camp, and then to the place of arrival of the car "ambulance".

Questions and accusations in a mad act left for later, the more daring, the cook began to feel that the meeting with the brave rescuer was not at all. Gypsum, airplane, grandma's house on the Kuban and the promise of the parents to get back from the Altai.

The rest of the vacation again had to occur in the fertile South, without the taiga, minerals and strange stories of salvation. And whether Hiking in the woods and wonderful deliverance, really? Sometimes Annie think that she was dreaming, but the sleep was surprisingly good and warm.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»