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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
This was absolutely FASCINATING!
I had never heard of the Dyatlov Incident, but it was mentioned in a book I was reading last year, and I love me a good true crime story!
Let me start off by saying - this actually scared the shit out of me. I do A LOT of true crime - tv, movies, books, podcasts, but nothing has chilled me as much as this story. I had nightmares. Seriously.
In 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the Russian Ural Mountains. That’s not all - there were A LOT of eerie aspects to the event - unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open their tent and fled in a panic - with no shoes on! - and a creepy photograph taken by one of the hikers.
Eichar goes deep into his research to find out what really happened on that mountain by reading the hikers’ own journals and photographs, interviews, and government records.
Through his research, he is able to piece together the days and hours leading up to the hikers’ deaths and perhaps has finally solved this mystery from long ago.
I had never heard of the Dyatlov Incident, but it was mentioned in a book I was reading last year, and I love me a good true crime story!
Let me start off by saying - this actually scared the shit out of me. I do A LOT of true crime - tv, movies, books, podcasts, but nothing has chilled me as much as this story. I had nightmares. Seriously.
In 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the Russian Ural Mountains. That’s not all - there were A LOT of eerie aspects to the event - unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open their tent and fled in a panic - with no shoes on! - and a creepy photograph taken by one of the hikers.
Eichar goes deep into his research to find out what really happened on that mountain by reading the hikers’ own journals and photographs, interviews, and government records.
Through his research, he is able to piece together the days and hours leading up to the hikers’ deaths and perhaps has finally solved this mystery from long ago.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death