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Mountain of the Dead

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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Mountain of the Dead

By: Keith McCloskey
Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
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The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths; Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizarre events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermath.

In January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. During the trip, one of the skiers fell ill and returned. The remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl, or "Mountain of the Dead".

On the night of February 1, 1959, something or someone caused the skiers to flee their tent in terror, using knives to slash their way out instead of using the entrance. When they failed to return home, search parties were sent out and their bodies were found, some with massive internal injuries but all without external marks. The autopsy report showed that the injuries were caused by "an unknown compelling force". The area was sealed off for years and the deaths and events of that night remained unexplained.

Benefiting from original research carried out in Russia, this book attempts to explain what happened to the nine skiers who lost their lives in what has come to be known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident".

©2013 Keith McCloskey (P)2022 Tantor Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Injury

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So this is a case I had never heard of before and I found it very interesting.

Hearing the injuries to the hikers is interesting and the whole thing is very strange to me and it’s near impossible to think that they would not only leave the tent but run so far away knowing it would almost certainly end in death.

I think a lot of the theories are far fetched, but frankly I couldn’t come up with anything better.

That was until the light theory and I think the book really went downhill from there. I think there was a hour of the book dedicated to a single theory that seems far more far fetched than any other theory in the book and I found it really dragged it down. I guess I can’t say it definitely didn’t happen, because no one knows for sure aside from the people who were there, just the light theory seems so bizarre.

I think the injuries to the hikers is so bizarre and unexplained that I question if the autopsies were accurate. How did some have such severe injuries but others didn’t? How were there no external marks? I question if the autopsies were done correctly or in depth enough. Could they have missed something? Was there a cover up? Why did some have severe injuries listed and then others not if there was a cover up?

From the start I presumed Folie a deux and I was surprised that wasn’t one of the theories. Group delusion/paranoia that lead them all to leave the tent, possibly without them realising in their altered mental state that it would almost surely lead to death.

At the end of the day, i believe these poor hikers died a very slow and painful death and it must have been horrific for them and I hope their loved ones have been able to find peace despite never knowing the truth.

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The author gives an interesting perspective on what happened to the hikers

If you have ever heard of Dyatlov Pass incident then you definitely know of most of the crazy theories surrounding it. But the Author chucks one more crazy theory in for good luck

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