I don't usually find myself enjoying non-fiction—nothing against the genre, it just doesn't have a great track record of holding my attention (probably because I associate it so much with school, and, boy, do I need a break)—so picking up 'Dead Mountain' was a bit of a risk on my part. But I'd heard a bit about Dyatlov Pass before from idle internet searches and was very interested to hear what a published source had to say about the incident.

That being said, this being my first time reading anything on Dyatlov Pass does mean I can't speak much for the content itself. In my opinion, Donnie Eichar seems to have covered his bases well; the information presented is organized and his analysis seems to be well-developed. I appreciated the small chapter lengths, since, as I've said, sometimes I struggle with staying invested in non-fiction books. Small chapters paired with Eichar's strategy of jumping between his modern investigations of Dyatlov Pass in 2012/2013 and what was happening in 1959 kept me interested—so interested, in fact, that I finished 'Dead Mountain' in a day.

I won't spoil Eichar's theory, but I'll admit, out of the theories presented in 'Dead Mountain,' it does seem to make the most sense. Of course, as this is so far the only book I've read on Dyatlov Pass, I'm understandably biased towards Eichar's understanding of the incident. There is also the issue of Eichar being an outside source—that is, being American in the twenty-first century, continents and decades away from February 1–2, 1959. While I don't think this fact necessarily takes any value away from Eichar's analysis, I am interested to read more about Dyatlov Pass from a Soviet perspective.

All in all, I really, really enjoyed 'Dead Mountain' and am very excited to read more on this topic. Any recommendations?