Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

by Donnie Eichar

Their bodies were eventually found roughly a mile away from their campsite, in separate locations, half-dressed in subzero temperatures. Some were found facedown in the snow; others in fetal position; and some in a ravine clutching one another. Nearly all were without their shoes.

“Few men in history have had such long and devastating effects—and not only on their own countries but on the whole world as a whole—[as Stalin],” writes Robert Conquest in the introduction to his definitive study of the Russian leader, Stalin: Breaker of Nations.

Good-bye, my friend, good-bye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Good-bye: no handshake to endure. Let’s have no sadness—furrowed brow. There’s nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.

Several days after their visit to the Mansi village, Karelin and his friends had witnessed what he called a “strange celestial phenomenon.”

The hikers themselves would not have damaged their own tent in this way, even by accident, so this seems to suggest one thing: Someone from the outside knifed his way through the tent on that terrible night.

Later that day, they hit upon a cache of clothing. What is odd about the articles is that they are abandoned in the snow, not attached to a person. Stranger still, some of the clothing looks to have been cut or shredded.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Infrasound is the opposite of ultrasound; it occurs below the threshold of human hearing at 20 hertz, while ultrasound frequencies fall above hearing at a threshold at 20,000 hertz.

Infrasound had been used by Nazi Germany to stir up anger and strong emotions in crowds assembled to hear Hitler speak.

Kármán vortex street, named after Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán, is an occurrence in fluid dynamics of both liquids and gases. In the aerodynamics of weather phenomena, air vortices—or small tornadoes—are created when wind of a certain speed hits a blunt object of a particular shape and size.