Reddit reviews Don't Go There: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

The book 'dont go there' by a russian journalist who has done a lot of work on the case makes a very plausible case that the local indigenous people were responsible, forcing the students to leave the tent at gunpoint as they were camping in a sacred area

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Go-There-Mystery-Dyatlov/dp/151775559X

not /u/dieseljet, but the tent monitoring might fit in with the conclusions presented by Svetlana Oss in Don't Go There: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass, which I would definitely recommend if you're at all interested in the Dyatlov incident. She lays everything out really clearly and also addresses some of the anomalies and other theories (infrasound and the radioactive clothing are the ones I remember).

Oss is a Russian investigative journalist and I definitely feel like being a native speaker and a trained investigator both serve her theory well. It's a quick read and pretty inexpensive to download even if you don't have Kindle Unlimited.

Thanks, lots of interesting points! (I think I've read most of your comments in this thread now.) And your book looks interesting as well!

Seems like the theory that they were murdered is somehow often quickly dismissed when discussing this case, in favour of either natural phenomena or stuff like yeti and aliens. I've seen some pretty convincing sounding theories on this subreddit for how some kind of panic + confusion and hypothermia could explain a lot of it, and it seems like Donnie Eichar's book also takes this approach, proposing that infrasound due to wind and mountains caused the initial panic. But considering the details of their injuries and the autopsy reports as you've described them here, your theory seems more and more convincing!

Have you read the book by the Russian journalist Svetlana Oss (Don't Go There: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass)? I haven't read it, but based on reviews and descriptions she seems to come to the same conclusion as you, that they were murdered. Her main suspect seems to be the Mansi people though. Apparently the mountain where they were heading, Otorten, has some kind of religious importance to the Mansi, and the name means "Don't go there" in their language.

By the way, the original reports you linked to. Do you know where they originate from and how they ended up on that google site? They seem believable, and even the wikipedia article links to them at one point, but I guess it would be nice to have some extra confirmation that they are the real deal. (Or maybe I'm being overly suspicious?)