Dead Mountain

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1. massungNov 2024
   My reads this read, which I enjoyed:

   - Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar (an examination of the Dyatlov Expedition).

   - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (fantasy).

   - Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

   - Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden.

   Hopefully the other responses here give me something good to read for Christmas break. :-)

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2. raghusMay 2021
   I recommend this book: Dead Mountain by Donnie Eicher. It is a well-researched read of the incident: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17557470-dead-mountain
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3. xxrJun 2016
   Donnie Eichar's book Dead Mountain is a good, fun read on it.
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4. ayk3Jan 2021
   How would one tumble in the avalanche while in the tent? Is the thought that the group heard the avalanche, came out, and got caught in it?

   I should read the paper more carefully. I'm going off what I remember from Dead Mountain by Eichar.

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5. david422Jan 2021
   The book "Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident" goes into this.

   IIRC, an avalanche as an explanation was rejected.

   The conclusion was something like a harmonic wind incident. This caused the hikers to be highly uncomfortable and disoriented, so they left the tent and later died in the confusion.

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6. drdeadringerJun 2016
   I heard recently of the book "Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident" by Donnie Eichar ... which apparently goes into the whole thing via access to records, photos, interviews, the hiker's journals, and so forth.

   The book's on my short list of reading.

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