A very thought provoking mystery involving nine experienced Russian hikers who never made it back alive. The mysterious way that these hikers died has led to decades of speculation and spawned several conspiracy theories. Donnie Eicher gains unprecedented access to the hikers journals, personal photographs and the official government files. He uses these sources to piece together what really happened on that mountain almost 60 years ago. The author does a good job of explaining all the theories and giving reasons why they are not plausible. The theory he comes up with makes a whole lot of sense and he does a great job in making his highly technical theory understandable to the average person.

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I heard about the incident at Dyatlov Pass a long time ago. I was always interested in learning more about it. It is about a group of experienced hikers that set out on a trip. They were hiking in the extreme cold in the Russian Ural Mountains. When they never made it back, a search party was sent. What they found had everyone baffled. No one could say what happened to the party. To this day, there is a lot of speculation but no answers.
This brings in this book. The author set out to do the same trip as the hiking party. He wanted answers and felt that following in their footsteps would help. For most part, I really liked this story. It was a very detailed account on what the hikers went through. I felt joy, sadness and fear reading about their story. A couple things I didn't like was the amount of time was spent on the author's travels. We already knew he was going to go that route. Going over his travels in, what I thought, an over abundance was unnecessary. The story also flips timelines. Sometimes this was done smoothly and sometimes it caught me off guard. All in all it was a very good story. I liked his theory at the end and the science he used to back it up. I'm still not so sure that is what happened though.

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