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In 1959, nine Russian students set off on a skiing expedition in the Ural Mountains. Their mutilated bodies were discovered weeks later. Their bizarre and unexplained deaths are one of the most enduring true mysteries of our time. Nearly sixty years later, podcast host Nat McPherson ventures into the same…

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Many people are aware of the story of Dyatlov Pass, where a group of Russian hikers were found frozen to death in mysterious circumstances, but Moncrieff takes it a step further and introduces a creature that very well might be the reason behind everything.

Told with whip-cracking prose, this novel is impossible not to finish in a single sitting.

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