This trick is not even annoying, just quaint. I don't think it's practiced that much anymore. You can write one. No living or dead men are found, but some rooms are in disarray. The team discovers a journal, and a geologist fluent in Russian is able to translate for the rest.
Narration now shifts to the contents of the journal.
The journal starts with the minutiae of daily life. Geologist skips ahead, find reference to a cave discovered across a mountain range. Strange artifacts and even stranger lifeforms found frozen in cave. Team takes back an artifact to study. As days progress, eerie things happen and people grow fearful.