Ann Матвеева is the known prose writer, native of Ekaterinburg. Author of novels "Enviable sense of Vera Стениной" "Is"!, "Wait collections of stories, I will die - and I will come", "Nine ninetieth", "Лолотта and other parisian histories", "Townspeople". Финалист of bonuses "The Large book", "National best seller".A "secret of mountain pass Woodpecker" is tragic and until now not unriddled history about a mysterious incident happening in sullen, complete mystics mountains of Cеверного of Ural. In winter 1959th the group of students left in a hike and. disappeared. They were searched long, and when found lost - riddles added only."On one of lodging for the night, already in darkness, something frightful befell. They ripped open a tent, ran out on a frost who on is put, and who in socks and began to tear along downward on a slope, carrying away injured of friends. Nobody pulled through. None lived so long before day. But all, who remained in consciousness, fought as lions. And dead snows saved the "dynamic poses of people creeping to the abandoned tent".Aleksej Ivanov