Etapalli is a village and a tehsil in Gadchiroli district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Each year, the indigenous people climb them in large numbers when there is a pilgrimage on an auspicious day in the first week of January.

[citation needed] Despite the difficult trek, men of all ages and even children climb up the mountain some with a male goat on their shoulders for sacrifice.

Huge crowds of women, children, and other people wait at base for the men of honour to climb up and come down safely from the dangerous place.

This matter was raised at an international indigenous peoples conference organized by the United Nations by one of the activists, Lalsu Nogoti.