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Episode Power Rankings

The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S1E8 8.1
Episode #1.8

The group reaches the pass and sets up camp. As the night progresses, the conditions worsen and their struggle becomes unthinkable. Each harrowing detail fills in the puzzle pieces of what really happened to the Dyatlov hikers.

#2
S1E2 7.6
Episode #1.2

Nine days before the group's death, the hikers pass through a small village where they learn about the region's Indigenous Mansi people, who have named the mountain they're headed toward the Dead Mountain.

#3
S1E6 7.6
Episode #1.6

The hikers search for a strange figure in the woods and take him back to camp; Zolotarev is suspicious of the new guy.

#4 Episode #1.7 S1E7 7.6
#5 Episode #1.3 S1E3 7.5
#6 Episode #1.4 S1E4 7.5
#7 Episode #1.5 S1E5 7.5
#8 Episode #1.1 S1E1 7.3

Lowlights

#8 S1E1 Episode #1.1 7.3

In 1959, after a group of nine student hikers are found dead in the Ural Mountains, KGB Major Oleg Kostin is sent to investigate. During the autopsy, Oleg has a flashback of a disturbing memory from WWII.

#7 Episode #1.5 S1E5 7.5
#6 Episode #1.4 S1E4 7.5
#5 Episode #1.3 S1E3 7.5
#4 Episode #1.7 S1E7 7.6

The Quality Arc

Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.

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Episode Engagement

High votes + high rating = beloved classic. High votes + low rating = notorious stinker. Low votes + high rating = hidden gem.

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