A review by matttruss
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

This was my "creepy" book for October, something I always try to fit in during the month.  This wasn't so much a scary story as just weird, unexplained and ultimately, quite sad.  These were just kids up there in the Ural Mountains and the fact that their family and friends never got any answers and were met with resistance from the government over their funerals and the investigation of their deaths is incredibly sad.  The author did a great job covering and systematically breaking down each theory while poking holes in them.  Eichar does come up with a very intriguing theory and collaborates it with some experts in this area.  This is something that investigators of the time wouldn't have had an explanation for and probably why we were left with an "unknown compelling force" for so long.  The theoretical scenario that Eichar laid out seems the most plausible theory and I hope it provides someone, somewhere some of the answers they were looking for.  These hikers died as true friends and truly great hikers, doing whatever they could to save their friends. 
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