One of the most baffling of all mysteries has to be The Dyatlov Pass Mystery. I’d never read a book on the case before so I was looking for a really good book on the case and imo I found just the one. It’s called Death Of Nine: The Dyatlov Pass Mystery by Launton Anderson. I have nothing to compare it to of course but I’d say that if you want a good introduction to the case, background on the victims, the journey itself, diary entries, autopsy reports, unanswered questions, strange unexplained facts, unbiased evidence and loads of photographs then this is the one. It’s such a complex case that it’s an achievement to get it into just 280 pages. Check out the website and forum on the case - there are some real experts on this case going into minute details. The author also reviews the theories (a paragraph on each one) and then gives the one that he favours (which I’m not totally sold on but I can see his point of view) I’m convinced that it was a murder and not the result of some natural phenomenon or some kind of animal (certainly not a Yeti!) Who did it though? I have a feeling that there’ll never be an answer to that one although it may be locked away somewhere in Russia. When an official enquiry comes up with one of the stupidest theories of all you tend to get the impression that this is a subject that they are no longer willing to discuss.
Recommended.
Recommended.
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