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Halálhegy: A Gyatlov-csoport tragédiájának igaz története by Donnie Eichar
7 reviews
ericasbookshelves's review against another edition
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
I’ve always found the Dyatlov Pass Incident to be a very fascinating case, but often find it gets convoluted and mildly confusing when reading/listening to things about it, I think this did a good job explaining everything that happened leading up to the tragedy. Although the author also included the story of him going to russia to investigate, which was an interesting addition, but I wish it wasn’t factored in Every other chapter. Some of those chapters were full of personal anecdotes that could have been left out(things about his family or his health) and switching back and fourth ended up causing me to be pulled out of the Dyatlov chapters. I think the theory put forth by the author at the end was very convincing and I liked reading about that. I feel like he dismissed and went through the other theories at lightning speed and I wish he spent more time on them and why people think those are plausible. Overall, I found the book interesting and engaging and would recommend it to people both familiar and not familiar with the case.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail
byashleylamar's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Death
spaghettireads's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
jhbandcats's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.5
This book tells of the hiking trip gone wrong in the Ural Mountains of the USSR in 1959, the unknowable end of the nine college friends, and the multiple theories that have been put forth over the years. The book alternates sections discussing what happened at the time of the tragedy with descriptions of how the American author began his research and what he discovered during his trips to Russia.
Some reviews complain that the author shouldn’t be a part of the book but I found the contemporary sections as fascinating as the ones on what originally happened. He tells about the people he interviewed, the papers he studied, the photos he pored over - and then he tells about his trips to the Urals to see if he can experience the hike the way the friends did fifty years earlier, albeit with Gore-Tex, Polartec, and snowmobiles.
The book ends with the many theories being examined and then tossed out. Then the author proposes an unusual idea about infrasound caused by high winds and the possibility that it disoriented and frightened the hikers enough where they ran out of their tent in -25 degree weather where they froze. I am not sure I’m sold on the infrasound theory but it’s certainly compelling, especially when he recreates what *might* have happened on that last night of their lives.
Some reviews complain that the author shouldn’t be a part of the book but I found the contemporary sections as fascinating as the ones on what originally happened. He tells about the people he interviewed, the papers he studied, the photos he pored over - and then he tells about his trips to the Urals to see if he can experience the hike the way the friends did fifty years earlier, albeit with Gore-Tex, Polartec, and snowmobiles.
The book ends with the many theories being examined and then tossed out. Then the author proposes an unusual idea about infrasound caused by high winds and the possibility that it disoriented and frightened the hikers enough where they ran out of their tent in -25 degree weather where they froze. I am not sure I’m sold on the infrasound theory but it’s certainly compelling, especially when he recreates what *might* have happened on that last night of their lives.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail
authormelissameyer's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Gore, and Grief
ercon's review
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death
j_squaredd's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
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