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

That's fascinating. Coincidentally, I just finished reading Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident in which the writers suggests 9 Russian hikers who died under mysterious circumstances freaked out due to infrasound. In following up on that, I read that "the odd sensations that people attribute to ghosts may be caused by infrasonic vibrations".

Read this: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mountain-Untold-Dyatlov-Incident/dp/1452112746 it is a very good book. The author thoroughly examines and reexamines all the evidence, consults the experts and provides reasonable explanation. And, unlike his collegue-writers, tackling the incident he doesn't end up with explanations like aliens, super-soldiers or inter-dimensional soviet experiments.

Fantastic recent book on the Dyatlov Pass incident: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar. Lays out the sequence of events, includes many photos from the hikers' own cameras and extracts from their diaries and the investigation reports, and comes up with the most plausible non-supernatural explanation I've heard yet. Also puts the incident and the lost hikers into context of Soviet culture at the time. And a riveting read :)

This is a really, really interesting case. In the book Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar, he proposes that significant winds drove the group from their shelter in a panic. Eichar suggests that the shape of the mountain and the weather forecast for the night were prime for vortices to form exactly where the camp had been established. Eichar suggests that the group panicked when groups of mini tornadoes pummeled the area around the tent, leading them to tear the tent open from the inside and flee. He says the type of winds and weather phenomenon would have produced low frequency disturbances inaudible to the human ear but that affect thought and rationalization and can cause panic.

Its the most scientific theory I've read on the topic and the book was an easy read. He seems to be able to explain all deaths using the theory but skims some evidence that still left me somewhat skeptical. It was very rational but still leaves the mystery definitively unexplained.

This past summer I was dating a girl and we heard about this before hearing it on lore. We got really interested and read a book called Dead Mountain that gives all the info about it. It is really well written and I suggest picking it up if the story interested you at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mountain-Untold-Dyatlov-Incident/dp/1452112746

Edit: Meant to say that the book has many theories that make you think 'yup that's what happened' and then gives better reasons why that's wrong. Check it out.

If you're interested in the case, I'd recommend this. Covers a lot of angles and possibilities.

I read an interesting book on this a year or two ago, recommended by Josh Gates: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mountain-Untold-Dyatlov-Incident/dp/1452112746