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Kholat Syakhl, a transliteration of Mansi Holatchahl meaning "dead mountain" [1] 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 . On February 2, 1959, a group of ski hikers led by Igor Dyatlov mysteriously perished on the ...
On 1 February, the group arrives at the Kholat Syakhl mountain and erects a large, nine-person tent on an open slope, without any natural barriers such as forests. On the day and a few preceding days, a heavy snowfall persisted, with strong wind and frost. The group traversing the slope and digging a tent site into the snow weakened the snow base.
- 1–4 February 1959
- Physical trauma and hypothermia
- Area closed for 3 years
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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 destination. The ...
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 ...
- Rebecca Armitage
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 ...
The Dyatlov Pass incident is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to ...