Only two Europeans, Masson the traveller, and Sir Henry Green, have ever succeeded in reaching the summit, on which is a "Zariat," or shrine.

The ascent is difficult and dangerous, as, the mountain being said to be haunted, no native guides are procurable.

The word "Chehel-Tan" signifies in Baluch "Forty Bodies," and is derived from the following legend.
A frugal pair, many years married, were unblest with offspring.

They therefore sought the advice of a holy man, who rebuked the wife, saying that he had not the power to grant her what Heaven had denied.
The priest's son, however (also a moullah), felt convinced he could satisfy her wishes, and cast forty pebbles into her lap, at the same time praying that she might bear children.

In process of time she was delivered of forty babes--rather more than she wished or knew how to provide for.