DEAD MOUNTAIN: THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY OF THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT

Book ID/图书代码： 03080013B60031

English Summary/英文概要： In February 1959, a group of nine hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died in a mysterious fashion on the eastern side of the mountain known as the Mountain of the Dead. Eerie aspects of the incident—like the unsettling or unexplained causes of death, a strange last photograph on one of the hikers’ cameras, and signs of radioactivity—have led to decades of speculation and intrigue over what really happened. In this gripping book, author and documentary filmmaker Donnie Eichar delves into the real-life tragic mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers’ own journals and photographs; unseen government records; dozens of interviews, including with the only surviving hiker; and by retracing the hikers’ fateful journey, shedding light on the lives of the hikers and what really happened on the side of the mountain.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1959年二月，九位背包客在俄罗斯乌拉尔山的东侧以奇怪的形式死去，这座山正是因被称作死亡之山而闻名。 这件事故的恐怖之处——比如令人不安的无法解释的死因、其中一位背包客相机中的最后一张照片，以及辐射信号——引发了数十年来无法休止的关于究竟发生了什么的推测。这这本扣人心弦的书中，作者随同纪录片电影制作人Donnie Eichar 通过深入了解遇难者自己的日记以及照片，挖掘出史无前例的悲剧谜团真相。从未见过的政府记录，多次访谈记录，包括唯一一位幸存下来的背包客，并且通过再游这位幸存背包客所记下的旅途，背包客们所遭遇的经历以及山那边所究竟发生的一切，都慢慢的浮出了水面。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：full news article:http://deadline.com/2015/07/nonfiction-nonfiction-book-dead-mountain-optioned-by-straight-up-films-1201475415/

"Dead Mountain reads like a mystery, with flashback chapters that lead up to the last known details of the ill-fated adventure. Author Eichar is a documentary filmmaker who fell into the 50-year-old mystery. Determined to unravel the clues, he takes a winter hike into the same mountains. His research leads him to sort through the classic explanations?avalanche, attack by the local Mansi people, high winds, armed men, weapons testing, and even aliens. Punctuated with primary source documents, readers will be riveted to the final conclusion of the true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident." School Library Journal

A Junior Library Guild Selection

A "Best of L.A." pick- Los Angeles Magazine

"They say the best stories, the most compelling ones, are the ones based in truth that is so strange that you think it must be fiction. . . . Eichar has engaged in a Sherlock Holmes-style process of elimination investigation to what could have happened to the hikers. . . . [A] true life mystery, finally solved." -National Geographic Weekend

"The mystery of the bizarre deaths of elite Russian hikers in a 1959 tragedy on a deadly Ural mountain is the subject of Eichar’s extensive investigation. Eichar, a film director and producer, tries to make sense of the puzzling tale of the dead students from Ural Polytechnic University; he sets off to interview the hikers’ relatives, investigators, and even a lone survivor. Following the search party’s retrievals of the bodies, the questions deepen when the victims are discovered, insufficiently dressed for the frigid weather, shoeless, with violent injuries, including a horrible skull fracture, a leg torn away, and a tongue ripped out. With expert analysis of the remaining evidence, Eichar tries to answer why the hikers, seven men and two women, would go out into the bitter cold without warm clothing to meet certain death; curious, too, is that the contents of the tent were intact. Possible causes for the panic, according to Eichar and officials, are: an avalanche; mysterious armed men; even a fatal tiff by the males over the women. As the elements of this complicated tangle are compiled, the final wrap-up of the mountain tragedy is overwhelming, befitting a case defying explanation." -Publishers Weekly

"Readers will appreciate the drama and poignancy of Eichar’s solid depiction of this truly eerie and enduring mystery." -Library Journal

"Five Stars...The best investigation on [The Dyatlov Pass Incident] that I have ever read." -Mysterious Universe podcast

"Dead Mountain piques your curiosity from start to finish as the details of these nine young and vibrant hikers unfold to explain their brave fight for survival in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. " -Malibu Magazine

"An American documentary filmmaker drops into the well of one of Soviet Russia’s greatest mysteries. . . . A sad tale of tragedy and investigatory enigmas from the wilds of Soviet Union." -Kirkus Reviews

About the Author/作者介绍： Donnie Eichar is a Florida native brought up among a family of storytellers. He’s an acclaimed director and producer of film and television who recently produced MTV’s groundbreaking documentary series The Buried Life. He lives in Malibu, California.

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