National Ice Climbing Championship

Fifth National Ice Climbing Championship will be held on Maygoon ice wall in Roodbar-e-Ghasran region in Middle Alborz on February 22 and 23, 2007.
The men competition will be held on Thursday February 22, when the women competition will be on next day.
Those who are interested to compete shall contact the Maygoon Ice Climbing School to register for the competition before February 21.

IMZ News Department
February 18, 2007

Eighteen Iranians Summitted Kilimanjaro

Eighteen out of twenty seven Iranians in an expedition to Kilimanjaro summitted Kibo, the main summit of Kili, Ali JafarNejad the leader of the expedition in a call reported.
The group, which had left Tehran Saturday January 27, summitted Kibo at 7am local time on Monday February 5, According to Ali’s report. The expedition is leaving the mountain.
Standing at 5895m, Kilimanjaro is the highest point of Africa.

IMZ News Department
January 19, 2007

Accident in Alamkouh region: The 1^st chopper crashes! - The 2^nd succeed in evacuation

Few minutes ago, Kiomars Babazadeh reported of successful evacuation of climbers and crew of the crashed chopper from Sarchal hut.
A Red Crescent’s chopper, which was going to evacuate entrapped climbers in the region, hit the mountain near Sarchal hut yesterday afternoon! Fortunately, no one of nine rescuers and crews injured seriously. They joined quickly to those two entrapped climbers in the hut. Finally, all of them were evacuated by the other chopper today morning.
"All climbers, rescuers and chopper’s crew are safe back now. Just Reza Abbasion will be carried out to Tehran by chopper to get his frozen hands to be cured", Babazadeh added.
The last group of rescuers, who were going up to the hut via Sarchal route, is coming back too.

IMZ News Department
January 19, 2007

Accident in Alamkouh region: Deadly climb of German Flank

Mehdi Azizi and Alireza Soleimani two members of Arash Mountaineering Club of Tehran died during winter climb of peak Alamkouh via German flank.
Mehdi and Alireza with Reza Abbasion and Parviz Komasi, two members of Songhor Mountaineering Council, left Mountaineering Federation’s lodge in Roudbarak toward the region on Monday January 8. Six days later, Mehdi, Alireza and Reza, who had spent last two nights in a hard condition on the flank, decided to abseil down the west cwm. Descending to the west cwm, Mehdi fell into his death! Few hours later, Alireza died the same night in a bivouac. It seems that exhaustion and hypothermia has caused Alireza’s death. Reza, the third guy in the group, came back alone to Alamchal camp via west cwm the day after. Coming back to Sarchal hut, he called Tehran and informed his friends from the accident. Reza and Parviz are entrapped in Sarchal hut now, where Reza is suffering from frostbite.

  

Kiomars Babazadeh, who is leading rescue team in Roudbarak, told IMZ in a call: "It has been snowing in the region whole the day. The risk of avalanche is serious, so we cannot access two climbers via land. We are trying to arrange an air rescue". The first group of rescuers will go up via Sarchal route tomorrow, according to Babazadeh report. "Though Reza is suffering from frostbite, the situation of climbers is not still critical and we have to be aware of avalanche risk for rescue team", he added.
Babazadeh believes that there is no chance to bring the bodies out of the region before June.

IMZ News Department
January 18, 2007

Bad news from Alamkouh region

Few hours ago, we heard of a serious accident for a group of 4 mountaineers in Alamkouh region. Mehdi Azizi and Alireza Soleimani members of Arash Club of Tehran as well as two members of Songhor Mountaineering Council, who were going to climb Mount Alamkouh(4865m) from its German flank were composing the group. Two mountaineers of Songhor are back to Sarchal hut at 3800m, while one of them is suffering frostbite. A group is leaving toward the region for rescue.
Additional news will be reported later.

IMZ News Department
January 17, 2007

IMF to prepare for Himalayan Expedition in 2007

In a public announcement, Iran Mountaineering Federation has invited all interested mountaineers to participate in the first stage of preparation ascents to form national Iranian Expedition to Himalaya in 2007.
According to public relation of IMF, the first test will be held in Mt Tochal on January 25 and 26. The women mountaineers should attend the test in Palangchal hut at 9:00am on January 25, while the men should go to Shirpala hut.
Having insurance is mandatory to all participants.

IMZ News Department
January 16, 2007

Meeting of Veteran Mountaineers in Tehran

In a public announcement, few old and experienced mountaineers have invited all veteran mountaineers for a meeting in Tehran on January 18, 2007. The aim is discussing and deciding about formation of an organization composed of pioneers of mountaineering in Iran and old and veteran mountaineers. The gathering will start on 3:00pm at NGO’s center in Tehran’s Municipality.

IMZ News Department
January 13, 2007

National Climbing Championship, Shaghayegh Cup

Karaj Mountaineering Council with the cooperation of Shaghayegh mountaineering group held the fifth Shaghayegh cup as the national climbing championship in Esteghlal gym in Karaj on January 4 and 5, 2007.
Sixty nine climbers from around the country had participated in the competition, where 8 climbers entered to final stage. At the final stage, Mohammad Jafari and Gholamali BaratZadeh got the equal score and made the organizers to hold the super final. At the end, the following climbers stood first to sixth:

1. Mohammad Jafari from Kerman
2. Gholamali BaratZadeh from Khorasan-e-Razavi
3. Davoud Rekabi from Zanjan
4. Morteza Eftekhar from Karaj
5. Masoud Yavari from Kermanshah
6. Amir Hamze PourShafi from Kermanshah

The winners were awarded at the closing ceremony, when Saed Najafi as the oldest and Pouyan Siyahvashi as the youngest participants were praised as well.

IMZ News Department
January 6, 2007

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