Mortmain Mountains

The Mortmain Mountains is a fictional mountain range in Lemony Snicket's series A Series of Unfortunate Events. It is featured in The Slippery Slope, the tenth novel.

This was the area of the Valley of the Four Drafts (List of VFDs) that the Snow Scouts gathered in The Slippery Slope, and also the location of the penultimate safe place for VFD members, the only other being the Hotel Denouement. When The Man With a Beard but No Hair and the Woman With Hair but No Beard started a fire at the penultimate safe place for the members of VFD, the sugar bowl was tossed out a window down the Stricken Stream, which arises on Mount Fraught and flows to the sea.

The range is very difficult to climb, since it consists of sheer drops and plateaux arranged in a staircase. The range is very cold during winter and false spring, with blizzards and ice further hindering climbing. The Snow Scouts are headed by Bruce (who readers may remember as a member of the Herpetological Society) and they include many important people eg. formerly Quigley Quagmire, Carmelita Spats (her uncle is Bruce) and the children of C.M.Kornbluth and the Duchess of Winnipeg. At the moment we only know that the Snow Scouts have been kidnapped by Count Olaf, and the last time we saw them was when they were forced to row Olaf's ship while Carmelita sang for them (which really is torture).