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Kholat Syakhl, a transliteration of Mansi Holatchahl meaning "dead mountain" or "silent peak", is a mountain in the northern Ural region of Russia, on the border between the Komi Republic and Sverdlovsk Oblast near the northeast corner of Perm Krai.
- 1,096.7 m (3,598 ft)
- Ural Mountains
- Холатчахль (Russian)
Kholat Syakhl, Northern Urals, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union: Coordinates: Type: 9 deaths: Cause: Physical trauma and hypothermia: Outcome: Area closed for 3 years: Deaths: 9 trekkers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute. 6 due to hypothermia; 2 due to physical chest trauma
- 1–4 February 1959
- Physical trauma and hypothermia
- Area closed for 3 years
Jun 25, 2022 · The search party climbed the slopes of Kholat Syakhl, which means Dead Mountain in the language of the Ural's Indigenous Mansi people. It was there that they realised something had gone terribly wrong. They found a tent, which appeared to have been slashed open from the inside and hastily abandoned.
- Rebecca Armitage
Oct 23, 2014 · Their campsite was made on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl (Dead Mountain), at about 3,600 feet. All the travelers — eight of them in their early/mid-20s with Zolotaryov in his late 30s — were ...
Jan 29, 2021 · On February 26, they found the group’s tent, badly damaged, on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl—translated as “Death Mountain”—some 20 km (12.4 miles) south of the group’s...
Apr 5, 2021 · The hikers dug a platform into the slope of Kholat Syakhl to pitch the tent, and a scientific model published in January 2021 demonstrates that this, combined with strong downslope winds that...
Dyatlov Pass incident. The Dyatlov Pass incident is an unsolved mystery to the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат-Сяхыл, a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain).
