I am someone who is captivated by the Dyatlov Pass Incident so I figured I'd give this a watch. Did I go in thinking this would be amazing or accurate? No I wanted to see how they'd try to prove a Yeti was behind it all. It's not a bad documentary in that it's boring. Quite the opposite it's decently paced and well put together. The problem however lies in how much the documentary twists facts to make viewers buy their absurd conclusion.
For instance the name of the peak they were found on was called Kholat Syakhl. This translates to dead/silent peak or mountain with no game, because the peak is so high and barren no animals roam there thus the Mansi (local tribal people) avoid it. It does mean "stay away" or "beware the yeti like the documentary suggests. Furthermore the film crew try to say the Mansi have a deep folklore about a yeti. Well actually they don't. They have a belief in a Menk which is a forest spirit that has nothing do with a Yeti, especially since these spirits guard forests and the animals which roam in the forest, where as again Kholat Syakhl is intentionally named for being a barren peak/has no animals... kind of contradicts the Mansi mythology.
The documentary also tries to account for the injuries the skiers sustained as evidence of a yeti even though most of the injuries occurred postmortem and are consistent with natural decomposition in a snowy environment like they eyes and tongue breaking down while the corpse as a whole is mummified, the skin taking on a tan or orange like hue and the hair turning grey.
Perhaps the most ridiculous part is the photo of the shadow figure in the background of the trees that must be the yeti. Fun fact you can actually find photos recovered from the dead skiers which are now posted online courtesy of the Dyatlov Foundation. And you know what? The photo this documentary team shows isn't in any of the photos the Foundation provides. I guess only this film crew were able to get their hands on this magic photo smh.
The more I watched, the more I felt insulted. It really does seem like the documentary team think their audience is a special breed of stupid who believe anything that's on tv. But maybe that's just because again I have actually looked into this Incident before. But hey if you know absolutely nothing about Dyatlov Pass and really wish Yetis were real, this may just be the documentary for you.