Wind, Snow and Stars

I, Who Left

The Unsolved Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass

~ By Julius Black ~

~ Edited by Darcee Gardiner ~

~ Artwork by Stephen Rocktaschel ~

Chapters

I, Who Left.................................11

Those Who Stayed.......133

Postscript.........................................................289

    Copyright © 2019 by Julius Black

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form on by an electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

This is a work of historical-fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents may have been changed or are used fictitiously. Any

resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, decendents, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Edited by Darcee Gardiner

Cover and Artwork by Stephen Rocktaschel

Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Black, Julius Aurelius, author.

Title: Wind, snow and stars / Julius Black.

Description: Seattle : Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019917907 (print) | ISBN 978-1-7340247-8-4 (paperback) | ISBN 978-1-7340247-5-3 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Ural Mountains Region (Russia)--Fiction. |

Siberia (Russia)--Fiction. | Murder--Fiction. | Spies--Fiction. |

Cold War--Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | Historical fiction. |

Short stories. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. | FICTION / Historical / General. | FICTION / Short Stories (single author) | GSAFD: Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Spy stories. | Short stories.

Classification: LCC PS3602.L33 W56 2019 (print) | LCC PS3602.L33 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23.

This book contains graphic images

"It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it." ~ George Orwell

This is the true story of what has since been called the 'Dyatlov Pass Incident'... I wasn't there, no one was who could tell you anything more than the large volume of contradictory evidence previously collected. It's this collection I have used to support the realism in this novel.

Due to the insolence afforded by art, this is my interpretation and dramatization of a culture and peoples lost to posterity. Some things have been added, some events may occur on different days to support character arcs, some events recorded even by those journalists occurred at contrasting times.

Nevertheless, this is a story formed by the dramatic changes of the twentieth century and dissolved by nature eternal. This is a mystery unsolvable, not for its lack of evidence, but for its abundance.