The guru sect leader forced tourists to communicate with water and…
The guru sect leader forced tourists to communicate with water and eat rotten food before climbing Mount Elbrus.
Consensus
- A tourist labor camp in the Caucasus required participants to work 33 days for a free climb of Mount Elbrus.
- Participants were subjected to daily multi-hour meetings discussing cosmic energies, positive vibrations, and strict behavioral rules.
- Participants were forbidden from using phones, communicating with outsiders, and even from combing their hair in tents.
- The camp leader, Igor, assigned gender-based roles based on 'earthly' and 'cosmic' energy, with women performing physical labor.
- The leader allegedly consumed prohibited substances and led tourists on climbs without proper documentation or certification.
- One woman and her husband left the camp after 24 days, citing the leader's plans to marry multiple women and form a settlement as the final reason.
- In 2023, several women filed a lawsuit against the leader after a dangerous climb, but the claim was rejected.
Points of divergence
- The leader, Igor, was accused of distributing duties based on 'earth' and 'cosmic' energy principles. — vm
- The leader, Igor, explicitly stated that women were 'earthly' and men were 'cosmic', assigning them labor accordingly. — tg_mash
- The leader was previously investigated for collecting money from followers and exploiting them through unpaid labor. — vm
- The leader was referred to as a 'guru-cosmoenerget' and had a Telegram channel promoting his ideology. — tg_mash
Coverage (2 sources)
- Guide-cosmoenergetic forced tourists to eat rotten food before climbing Elbrus — Вечерняя Москва
- Guide-heretic made tourists communicate with water and eat rotten food before climbing Elbrus. According to guru-cosmoenergeta... — Mash