Kholat Syakhl, or the 'Mountain of the Dead' in MansiШаблон:Citation needed (lit. Гора Мертвецов Gora Mertvetsov in Russian) is a mountain in the northern Ural region of Russia. In 1959 a group of ski hikers led by Igor Dyatlov mysteriously perished on the east shoulder of the mountain. The mountain is the subject of several important Mansi legends.