Explore the Mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident with 1079: The Overwhelming Force

Lucy G.: Most of this book is a boringly verbose (who cares about the bios of every person who went on each search) buildup to a left-field conspiracy theory which doesn't attempt to explain why so many clues do not fit in and are therefore ignored. I watched co-author Teddy on Josh Gates' Expedition Unknown--enough said!

Canada on May 20, 2023

Mrs. Patricia Hogben: I've read many books about the Dyatlov Pass incident and this one is one of the best, great for both beginners and seasoned investigators.
Highly recommended

United Kingdom on Feb 03, 2023

Andrea Elsner: I've read the book twice now. There are many details, the biography of people involved and there's some kind of feeling for the time and place, that's transported to the reader. The layout allows for detailed reading with all biographical parts or for fast reading without those.
Everything culminates in a theory, I've never read or heard before. It's simple but plausible. In fact it's the most plausible theory I've read this far.

Germany on Jan 26, 2023

Roumiana Deltcheva: This is not an easy read nor is it one appropriate for speed reading. While the book has some problems, it is a thorough analysis of the disappearance of a group of young, healthy, and experienced mountaineers in 1959 that continued to baffle investigators for decades afterwards. It goes over the various theories as to what happened and concludes with a new hypothesis that for someone coming from the former Eastern Bloc sounds very plausible.

Most of the issues I found with the book have to do with the translation, which at times was too literal or failed to address some of the cultural layers of the Soviet context. The book would have benefited considerably by a good editor as well as explanatory footnotes of Communist acronyms and the hierarchy within Soviet organizations. There are large portions of background and biographical information that should have gone into an Appendix thus streamlining the main narrative. Because I personally am familiar with Soviet totalitarianism (albeit of the later, 1970-89 variety), I found a lot of the details interesting, but I will agree that they were distracting if the main goal was following the disappearance of the group. The...

United States on Dec 16, 2021

Tania IvanovaTania Ivanova: I have been following the case for several years now. I thought that when the prosecutors announced in 2019 that they are going to the pass to investigate a hurricane, avalanche, and a snow slab that this is a media stunt, and that they will end up excluding the three theories. I thought that there is simply nothing further that they could accomplish on the pass. I was proven wrong, they managed to mislead everyone that wants the truth. I almost gave up following the case but then I found this book. I was told by a friend that there is a new theory, not a crazy one, that could be the real solution to the case. In the photo is my daughter, she is 17. She got to the book before me, I was at work. I have rarely seen her with a real book in her hands. She tells me: "Mom, the lives and adventures of these young people seem really heroic. They went into the wild without phones and equipment. It says here they didn't even have real maps. How did they do it? And why did they die?" I took the picture to remind me that my daughter had once read a paperback. I thank the authors for making this happen! And I guess I will be waiting my turn for the book.

Spain on Oct 02, 2021

MSR: This is one of those books that leaves you questioning everything you read long after you finished the book. It reads like a thesis. I have never seen someone invest so much time and resources in this case. This book is indeed hard to absorb at one reading. All this information is hard to process and I can't even imagine what this does to someone that hasn't heard about the Dyatlov case. But the book has a fair warning that its target pool is the advanced connoisseurs of the case. The authors don't even bother with artistic verisimilitude because the narrative is sufficient and convincing as it is. "1079" goes into details of the events and characters involved more extensively than the case files from 1959, but this is just one point on a continuum. The interpretation of these facts is breaking ground as unprecedented. Other books I've read about the case emphasized the unfortunate souls that never returned from the Dyatlov pass. This raises theories of conspiracy and even altercation within the group. "1070" is revealing the incident as an unfortunate stroke of serendipity and the mystery being created by scared people with the means to tamper with evidence and with the help of...

United States on Jun 01, 2021

EJ: This is a very well researched book with lots of bios and research. It certainly is a must read for anyone interested in the dyatlov pass incident. I am still not completely convinced on the ending, however it adds another theory to what happened.

United Kingdom on Apr 10, 2021