Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story Of The Dyatlov Pass Incident Quotes
"Time of day tends to lose its meaning in this wilderness."
"The pair push forward into the headwind, their bundled bodies a fleck of punctuation on this vast, wintry page."
"Conflicting thoughts of relief and horror flood the searchers’ minds."
"The entire arrangement gives the distinct impression of someone having tidied very recently."
"Not once does it cross their minds that a forsaken camp is cause for anything but hope."
"Visibility is low, and the horizon is lost in a milky-white veil of sky and ground."
"My interest in the half-century-old mystery started out innocently enough."
"The resources available to off-the-grid travelers were limited."
"Memories of that time lent to my appreciation of why these young Soviets had repeatedly risked the dangers of the Ural wilderness."
"I wondered how, in our globalized world, a case like this could remain so stubbornly unsolved."
"The globe will hear our voices carry on over mountain ridges and peaks."
"Though far from each other we roam, friends' singing will beat the distance."
"The children were eager to learn, and when the hikers revealed the contents of their backpacks, the children were held in captive fascination."
"He caught the photo bug early, and by the time he hit high school he was publishing his images in newspapers and magazines."
"His deep love of the outdoors was evident in the way he wrote about his hiking trips in his journals."
"We were poor, but we could live well because everything was cheap. The government helped us."
"He was deliberately finding and choosing the most dangerous situations and overcoming them."
"Sometimes they were very antigovernment, but no one worried about it."
"If the tea is cold, drink it outside and it will seem warmer."
"This wasn’t the first time I’d been told of Igor’s dictatorial qualities."
"We were all equal in everything. We had a strict code of ethics and discipline."
"After Stalin died, things opened up more, and students could go almost anywhere within the country."
"In lieu of an answer, I smiled and suggested we sit down at a table in the center of the room."
"Do you not have mysteries in your own country that are unsolved?"
"We shook hands before he shuffled into the kitchen to make tea."
"Only a threat of death can make people run barefoot at night from the only warm shelter."
"What would Yudin, who was still sentimental about Communist Russia, make of it?"
"The station was becoming busy, though I didn’t notice anyone besides us hauling around backpacks and ski equipment."
"The message from the police and city officials was clear: Large crowds of mourners and any resulting publicity were unwelcome."
"He had only to step off the train and see his parents standing there on the platform to know that something was wrong."
"But once they were outside in subzero air with a fierce wind pushing them down the slope, the elements had done the rest."
"So without a word to my companions, I popped a pill and lay back on the bench."
"The forensic examinations of Igor, Zina, Georgy and Doroshenko on March 4, and of Rustik on March 11, would conclude that the five hikers had died from hypothermia."
"I thought that some planet was coming in contact with Earth and that they would collide and Earth would perish."
"Ivanov knew that he needed more information to properly interpret the 'violent' classification of the forensic expert."
"The radiation measurements of the hikers’ clothing...exceeds standards for people working with radioactive substances."
"The case files...came to no conclusions about the night of February 1, avalanche or otherwise."
"The focal point of the room was a wall of photographs...the timeline of the investigative case."
"The least improbable answer still seemed to lie...in some sort of other natural occurrence."
"A pioneer in the biological effects of infrasound was...Vladimir Gavreau."
"I was meeting with a team of atmospheric physicists, and I had better come prepared."
"The symmetrical dome shape of the summit...created the ideal conditions for Kármán vortex."
"The more I learned about infrasonic wave detection...the more convinced I became."
"The spirit of this book is in honor of the nine hikers who died, their family and friends."