Tragedia na przełęczy Diatłowa. Historia bez końca - Alice Lugen

At the end of January 1959, a group of tourists, mostly students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic University, decided to celebrate the next CPSU congress by climbing Mount Otorten in the Northern Urals. The expedition ended tragically and under extremely astonishing circumstances. The hikers camped on the slope, pitched their tent, ran out into the Urals night, and lit a fire. No one survived the night - some died of hypothermia, while others were found with multiple injuries, traces of nosebleeds, sizable bruises on their faces, and fractures. To this day, no one has cleared up the case, and the 1959 investigation itself was as puzzling as the tragedy. The prosecutor closed it abruptly, and wrote in the report that the cause of the tourists' deaths was “a powerful force.”

Today in Russia, several thousand people are investigating the case, including the Diatlov Group Memorial Foundation. More than a dozen books have been written on the subject, documentaries have been filmed, and thousands of articles have been published. Every year, on the anniversary of the event, the Ural University holds a conference dedicated to the memory of the victims.

The mysterious death of nine tourists and the unexpectedly concluded investigation is the perfect starting point for spinning conspiracy theories. But Alice Lugen has gone in a completely different direction. She uses the story of the expedition to tell of bureaucratic chaos, Cold War hysteria and behind-the-scenes political gamesmanship. Instead of a horror movie with a paranormal background, we get a bureaucratic thriller that, not coincidentally, evokes the famous series about the Chernobyl tragedy.

 

The book comes in a Polish language version.

Technical data
Author: Alice Lugen
Binding: hardback
Publication year: 2024
Number of pages: 280
Format: 133 x 215 mm
Publisher: Czarne