With this book--his most ambitious yet--Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British
Dead Mountain: the untold true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident
β Scribed by Donnie Eichar
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books LLC
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1452112746
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β¦ Synopsis
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident--unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes--have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers' own journals and photographs, rarely seen government records, dozens of interviews, and the author's retracing of the hikers' fateful journey in the Russian winter...
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