The 97th meeting of Alpine Club of Iran will held on March 15 at shahriyaran-e-Javan culture hall in Tehran downtown.
This is the last meeting of the solar year 1389, so that the president will talk about the task undertaken by ACI’s during the current year. Afterwards, the meeting will go on with a few speeches on the theme of March 14, the international day of action for rivers. Meanwhile, specialists will discuss environmental impacts of dam construction projects on mountains and surrounding areas.
IMZ News Department
March 15, 2011
The 4th Mountain Logs and Films biennial’s jury finished judging over 76 entries after 2 months.
Erfan fekri, secretary of this festival said: "We received 28 written accounts with 48 films till submission deadline on January 5. Then, jury members presided by Shakour Lotfi, member of alpine club of Iran divided into two groups to separately judge the entries. Now, top films and written accounts are picked up, which will be announced in an official ceremony very soon."
Hadi Foqani, Abbas Mohammadi, Mohammad Haj Abolfath, Afshin Yousefi were logs jury, while Hamid Soheili, Pedram Akbari, Azizollah Haji Mashhadi and Hojatollah Forouqi judged received films.
IMZ News Department
March 13, 2011
On Monday, March 7th, the general assembly of Tehran’s indoor climbing league was held to elect board of directors.
According to Kaveh Kashefi, head of the Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran, 35 people attended this event as representatives of climbing clubs over the province. Details of league’s statute that has been approved by official sport authorities recently were presented, before the election started.
At the end of election, Kaveh, Mahmoud Iravani, Naser Sarvar-Masoule, Rahman Keshvari and Bouyeh Sadat-Nia were elected as main members and Mahmoud Hasan-Zadeh and Ali Akbar-Zadeh as alternate members.
The Board is responsible for executing the first provincial climbing league over Iran in coming few months.
IMZ News Department
March 8, 2011
Sixty five years from the formation of Iran’s Speleologists council in 1946, an association was established with 106 members specially dedicated to caving and speleology.
According to ICSA’s official website, cavers and speleologists from all over the country including veterans such as Changiz Sheikhli, Ahmad Marefat, Taher Zahedi, Heshmat Heidarian, Mohammad Nouri, Hamid Sedighian and Kiomars Babazadeh celebrated the birth of ICSA on March 4. This gathering was at the same time its first general assembly of Iran’s Cavers and Speleologists Association, where board of directors should be elected. Therefore an election started and resulted in the following outcomes:
Main Members: Javad Nezamdoost, Yousef Vaghef, Abbas Ghaderi, Majid Saghafi, Saeed Hasheminezhad
Alternate Members: Ebrahim Beiramian, Alireza Balaghi
Inspector: Arash Neghafi
Alternate Inspector: Mehrdad Haji-Hashemi
IMZ News Department
March 7, 2011
Blowing dust and sand that usually causes emergency weather condition in south west side of Iran, canceled women’s speed competition at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup.
The competition has been planned for Friday, March 4 outdoors, when dust storm swept through Ahwaz and there was no way except calling it off. Therefore, women’s final team result accomplished based on lead and bouldering competitions. Hereby, Zanjan took the first reward and followed respectively with Hamedan and Tehran among 17 teams.
IMZ News Department
March 6, 2011
Just two days after winning bouldering comp, Zanjan star climber, Elnaz Rekabi placed 1st among eight finalists of women’s lead contest this evening, March 3.
"Elnaz finished semi-final round, while she was the only one managed a top-out. The route was set on 5.12ab. Beside her, Farnaz Esmaeel-Zadeh, Sima Soltani, Fatemeh Solaimani, Negar Varshowci, Fatemeh Meqdadi, Maryam Ali-Khani and La’ya Sediq-Banay entered the final round," competition manager stated.
According to Mansoure Gorji, at the end of final attempt, Elnaz was again on top like 9th and 10th cups. She fell from the penultimate hold on a route with 5.12bc grade and followed by Fatemeh Solaimani and Fatemeh Meqdadi.
IMZ News Department
March 3, 2011
Women’s lead competition at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup kicked off this morning in Takhti sport complex of Ahwaz city.
"Fifty eight competitors from 17 provinces took part in women’s lead qualification, which was held on two routes rated 5.10d and 5.11b. It was a hot contest, where 11 women managed top-out both qualifiers finally and entered semi-final along with 15 other competitors," reported competition manager, Mansoure Gorji.
IMZ News Department
March 2, 2011
The famous Zanjani climber, Elnaz Rekabi topped women’s bouldering contest at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup.
Semi-Final round started this morning with 20 qualified women attempting on 4 problems in the difficulty range of 6b to 6c+. At the end Elnaz Rekabi and Farnaz Esmaeel-Zadeh from Zanjan, Negar Vashowchi and Fatemeh Solaimani from Hamedan together with Tehran representatives, Nasrin Abdolrahimi and Sara Manafi entered the final stage.
Final competition kicked off at 2:00 P.M. with four new problems whose difficulty grade varied between 6c+ and 7a. Elnaz Rekabi gained more points for his superior performance and defended her championship in the 10th cup. she followed with Farnaz and Negar.
IMZ News Department
March 1, 2011
Women’s bouldering competition at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup ran today, February 28th in Ahwaz, Khuzestan.
"Thirty five competitors from 12 provinces are now involved with 5 problems rated between 6a and 6b+ at qualification round. It will go on till this evening, while semi final and final rounds will be held tomorrow," said competition supervisor, Mansoure Gorji.
IMZ News Department
February 28, 2011
Men’s competitions at 11th Fajr Climbing Cup finished yesterday, February 25 at Takhti gym in Ahwaz, where Khorasan Razavi took champion’s place in final team ranking.
"Men’s speed started on Friday in the morning with 26 climbers. They speeded up a high wall, where Hamid-Reza Touzandejani from Khorasan Razavi won the race. Afterwards, Mohsen Mohammad-Nejad from Qazvin, who shone in recently held Asian continental competition and worldcup placed 2nd and his townsman Mohsen Shafie followed him," told competition’s manager.
Therefore based on total points attained, Khorasan Razavi topped final team result while Khuzestan and Zanjan provinces took next two places.
IMZ News Department
February 26, 2011
Davoud Rekabi topped men’s lead podium at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup among 8 strong finalists all vying for first position.
"February 24, in the morning lead’s semi-final round held on a route as difficult as 5.13a. At last, Davoud Rekabi, Qolam-Ali Barat-Zadeh, Ahmad-Reza Solgi, Khosrow Hashem-Zadeh, Reza Kolasangian, Mohammad-Ali Aqa-Davoudi, Amin Abbasi and Mojtaba Khodaei were the top finishers and entered final round," competition manager went on, "A few hours later, the finalist started to lead up a harder route with difficulty grade of 5.13b. Davoud fell from the penultimate hold, but to his fortune no one managed to top the route. Hereby, Davoud placed 1st and respectively followed by Khosrow and Reza."
IMZ News Department
February 24, 2011
Men’s lead competition at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup kicked off this morning, February 23rd at Takhti sport complex of Ahwaz city.
"The qualification round is going on with 123 competitors on two routes. The Belgian chief route setter together with his Iranian assistants has set them to be difficult as 5.11d and 5.12b. Twenty six top climbers of this pile will enter semi-final round that will be held tomorrow," said competition manager, Mehdi Davarpour.
IMZ News Department
February 23, 2011
Qolam-Ali Barat-Zadeh won men’s bouldering competition at the 11th Fajr Climbing Cup in Ahwaz, Khuzestan.
"Eighty climbers belonged to 20 teams attended men’s bouldering. The contest started yesterday, February 21 and went on for three rounds. Q.Ali B.Zadeh, H.Reza T.Jani, Arash Doustarian, H. Reza Qanimati, Reza K.Sangian and Sasan Azizi entered the finalists round with four difficult problems. At the end, it was Qolam-Ali, who defended his title as the winner of bouldering comps at 10th Fajr climbing cup. After him, H.Reza T.Jani and Reza K.Sangian placed 2nd and 3rd respectively," told Mohammad Tabibi, member of judge team.
IMZ News Department
February 22, 2011
Approximately five hundred mountaineers from 14 provinces took part in an expedition on Mt. Binalud held in honor of 32nd anniversary of Islamic revolution.
This program had been organized by Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Khorasan. On February 16th, climbers moved to "Ferizi" village in "Chenaran" city, fifty kilometers NW of Mashad. They divided into 4 smaller groups, one of which was comprised completely of women mountaineers from host province.
"Summit push started on Friday, February 19th from 4 different routes. The weather was getting upset toward the afternoon. Two teams succeeded to top main summit at 3220 m and fore-summit at 3100, while the others called back to respect safety codes," said Husain Amani, council’s head.
IMZ News Department
February 22, 2011
At the end of preparatory and selection camps started one month ago, 9 women beside 13 men were picked as representatives of Tehran province in 11th Fajr Climbing Cup.
Women’s team includes Nasrin Abdolrahimi, Masoumeh Rajabali, Sara Manafi, Zahra Rezaei, Setareh Shakiba, Solmaz Eshqi, Nasrin Nasiri, Malihe Nikzad, and La’ya Seddiq. Most of them will take part in lead and bouldering comps while in speed competition just Nasrin Abdolrahimi takes part.
Like women, Men’s team includes just one competitor in Speed category whose name is Morteza Mohammadi, while bouldering and lead list comprised of Mojtaba Khodaei, Masoud Qasemi, Milad Babaeian, Husain Rohani, Mohammad Ahouei, Ali Havaei, Majid Shokat, Masoud Zeynali, Amin Ketabi, Husain Sadeqi, Farhad Amiri, and Farshid Shah-Pasand.
The 11th Fajr Climbing Cup will kick off on next Saturday, February 20th at Takhti gym in Ahvaz, Khuzestan and will go on for 13 days.
IMZ News Department
February 17, 2011
An elementary training course starts on Friday, February 18th at "Ab-Ali" ski resort to instruct more than 66 people ABC of ski mountaineering.
This course is executed by ski mountaineering committee at Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation of Iran in four 4-day rounds. It will provide attendees with instructions on off-piste skiing, skinning techniques, avalanche and snow safety and also a short introduction to ski mountaineering competitions.
Majid Doroudgar, Beytollah Siraei, Sirous Jagfari, Reza Tahmasbi, Sepideh Javadian and Parisa Nobari are the instructors.
IMZ News Department
February 17, 2011
The 96th monthly meeting of Alpine Club of Iran will be on Wednesday, February 16th at Shahriyaran-e-Javan hall in Tehran downtown.
This meeting will start at 5:00 P.M. with mountaineering world news, which will be given by Erfan Fekri, the head of public relations committee at ACI. Afterwards, Farnoush Reisi is going to give a detailed reportage about the 4th Ice Climbing Festival of Iran that occurred two weeks ago in Roudbar-e-Qasran region.
The end part of 96th meeting is dedicated to a presentation by Abdol-Azim Berahmani about his attempt on Manaslu during last September and October. He touched C4 at 7400 m on the normal route and returned back home.
IMZ News Department
February 15, 2011
Safe Mountaineering Commission will hold backcountry avalanche skills course for climbers and skiers over February 23rd-25th.
"We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and techniques for backcountry users to help them prepare for safe travel in avalanche prone terrain. This course includes theoretical and practical trainings," said commission secretary, Abdollah Ashtari.
Safe Mountaineering Commission established last November under the authority of Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran province.This is the first training course on the theme of Mountain Hazards that SMC holds.
IMZ News Department
February 10, 2011
Two expeditions comprised of men and women mountaineers of Zanjan province will travel to Nepal during next March and April in order to climb Mt. Manaslu and Merapeak.
"Men’s team is passing last steps of preparation for Manaslu (8165 m). We are 7 people picked up after 10 selection camps among 40 entrants and probably will increase to nine before departure to Nepal next March," reported Mohammad-Hasan Najjarian, key member of this expedition with five 8000er summits in his bag.
Husain Moqadam, Ali Bayat-Manesh, Masoud Bayat-Manesh, Mojtaba Meqdadi, Mehdi Soltani and Masoud Hamidi together with Mohammad-Hasan are members of Manalsu expedition.
About women’s expedition; they will be 7 people leave Iran for an attempt on MeraPeak (6476 m) in Nepalese Himalaya next April. In order to form this expedition, 20 women have entered the selection process since last week.
IMZ News Department
February 10, 2011
Heavy snowing and cold weather in Roudbar-e-Qasran canceled the large scale ascent that has been planned in honor of 2010 avalanche victims toward 8 summits in the region.
Approximately 300 were preparing to climb 8 summits of Roudbar-e-Qasran in honor of 8 avalanche victims of last February in the region. The opening ceremony executed at a large Hall in Fasham district on February 2nd. Like last few days, the weather was still snowing.
On Thursday morning, participants were gathered just in two teams to have better monitoring on safety issues. They set off toward two easier summits and after a few hours walking in deep snow, the program called off by local guides to avoid getting avalanched.
IMZ News Department
February 5, 2011
The 4th Ice Climbing Festival of Iran kicked off at Roudbar-e-Qasran region in central part of Alborz range on Wednesday, February 2nd.
Held by Alpine Club of Iran annually since 2008, this event is a good opportunity for people interested in climbing icefalls and particularly for those wanting to enter the world of this sport.
"With temperature at minus 15, I think this is the time for ice climbing. At least 40 attendees from all over the country are here at Hamaloun valley attempting to climb icefalls with wide difficulty range. They have been divided into 4 groups with Hasan Javaherpour, Afshin Yousefi, Mohammad Sabouri and Masoud Hamidi as their guides. Moreover, with the lighting system set up against ice falls, climbing is possible even at nights," told Farnoosh Reisi, the secretary of festival.
This event will go on till Friday, February 4, 2011.
IMZ News Department
February 3, 2011
Men’s lead competition at Fajr Ice Climbing Championship finished on January 28, when Mohammad Sabouri took first place among 30 climbers from 5 provinces.
Thirty men entered the contest from Alborz, East Azerbaijan, Hamedan, Isfahan and Tehran. Qualification round kicked off on a long ice route at Hamaloun ice climbing school, where Masoud Zeynali from Tehran managed a top. Afterwards, the second round started with 18 competitors. This time no one managed a top outs and top eight climbers validated for the final round.
The final round held on Friday on a difficult mixed route, where climbers should begin using dry tooling techniques that had been isolated from the ice portion with a hanged out trunk. Eventually after a breathtaking attempt, Mohammad Sabouri placed 1st because of his superior performance, while second and third places went to Masoud Zeynali and Omid Amohammadi.
IMZ News Department
January 29, 2011
Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation of Iran called women and men over the country to summit Mt. Binalud and Mt. Shahvar in east part of Alborz Range in commemoration of "Decade of Fajr".
During past years, MSCFI used to organize mountaineering programs to honor the anniversary of Islamic Revolution and calls mountaineers from every side of the country to attend. This year’s program will be over February 16th -18th , while women participants will set off toward Mt. Shahvar (3920 m) in NW side of Shahrud and men put their efforts to summit Mt. Binalud (3300 m) in north side of Neyshabur city.
IMZ News Department
January 27, 2011
Mahsa Hokkam-Zadeh from Alborz province won the first prize of the 3rd edition of Fajr Ice Climbing Championship in women’s category held today, January 26th at "Hamaloun" ice climbing school in Roudbar-e-Qasran.
According to Masoud Jamshidi, who has been appointed by MSCFI as the manager of this year’s Fajr Ice climbing comps, Mahsa placed 1st after two round competing with 7 ice climbers came from Alborz, Hamedan, Isfahan and Tehran provinces. She then followed by Zohre Abdollah-Khani and Shabnam Shah-Mohammadian respectively from Tehran and Hamedan teams.
IMZ News Department
January 26, 2011
Bahman Azimi together with M.Javad Mohsen-Pour, members of environment friends clubs of Shahid Rajaee University will start a biking trip from north of Lut desert to its south tomorrow, January 25.
They left Tehran today in the evening to reach Birjand, the start point of their trip in southern Khorasan province. With the slogan "Prevent Forests from Turning into Deserts", these two bikers intend to join the International Year of Forests, 2011 which has been declared by United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests. This trip will take 4 days and will finish at "Shahdad" in Kerman province.
IMZ News Department
January 24, 2011
Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran is going to hold training camps to encourage mountaineering clubs over the province to independently enter world of high altitude mountains.
"MSCCT aims to take advantage of country’s experienced alpinists and maybe a few European instructors to train members of Tehran’ mountaineering clubs principles of high altitude mountaineering over Himalaya, Karakorum and Pamir. This program will provide a trustful basis for clubs to form their own expeditions on high altitude summits. The first camp will be on February 2nd, so that we have called them to dispatch 4 men plus 4 women at the age of 20 to 30," said Himalaya committee head at MSCCT, Younes Reza-Khani.
IMZ News Department
January 24, 2011
The Preparatory & Selection camps to pick top men and women sport climbers of Tehran province for the 11th Fajr Championship kicked off on Thursday, January 13.
This series of camps by Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran (MSCCT) are executed just in lead and bouldering categories.
"During these camps, 9 women and 16 men are trained mentally and physically by Mahmud Hasanzadeh (men’s coach) and Parisa Nobari (women’s coach) to show their best performance in coming competitions. Preparations will continue for one month," said sport climbing committee head at MSCCT, Mahmud Iravani.
IMZ News Department
January 20, 2011
Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran together with the same Federation are going to hold a large scale ascent in middle Alborz Range in honor of last year’s avalanche victims.
MSCCT hereby called all mountaineering clubs over the province to send their delegations (men and women) to this outdoor gathering. Participants will attempt on 8 summits over February 2nd-3rd in central part of Alborz to recall 8 Tehran mountaineers died on February 3, 2010, while walking back to their home in a road from Dizin to Shemshak.
According to MSCCT’s announcement, Abak (3500 m), Ahangarak (3400 m), Borj (4350 m), Janeshton (4100 m), Khatoun-Bargah (4050 m), Kharsang (4100 m), Kholeno (4375 m), and Sarak-Chal (4210 m) are these 8 destinations.
IMZ News Department
January 19, 2011
Ice Climbing Festival, Ecrins 2011 affected by condition of icefalls that was getting dangerous due to the warming of weather over Ecrins national park.
"In a four-day period from January 13th, we just climbed 6 pitches on an icefall in "Ciak" valley on the second day. The ice was such dangerous that French guides prevented climbers from ascending just a meter during last two days. Therefore, we moved to Chamonix aiming to summit Mont Blanc, where we were advised to forget about it. Now we are thinking about an ascent on Mt. Aiguille du Midi, but it depends on the meeting we have with local guides," told Mohammad Hajabolfath, member of Iranian team.
IMZ News Department
January 18, 2011
The 95th monthly meeting of Alpine Club of Iran will kick off at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 19th at Shahriyaran-e-Javan hall in Tehran.
According to ACI, after a short review on the latest events of alpinism all around the world, Abbas Sabetian, ACI’s President will give an introduction of "Wiki-Pakoob" website, which has been developed by himself in June, 2008. It is a free encyclopedia about Wilderness & Alpinism using wiki software, where everyone is free to write his viewpoints and experiences covering website’s principle theme. Approximately 630 articles have already been published on Wiki-Pakoob just in Farsi.
In last part of this meeting, attendees will be presented with a reporting by Hamid Zarrin and Hamid Safar-Nejad. They are two climbers from Khorasan province, who managed to summit Amadablam last November. That ascent was a tribute to their late friend, Abbas Jafari who died in a kayaking accident in Nepal, August 2009.
IMZ News Department
January 18, 2011
Alpine Club of Iran is going to hold the 4th ice climbing festival from February 1st to 4th in Roudbar-e-Qasran region.
Since 2007, this festival runs every year after ACI’s team gets back from Ecrins International Ice Climbing Festival in France. It is a valuable opportunity for ice climbers over the country to share their experiences on ice climbing and dry tooling.
IMZ News Department
January 14, 2011
Fajr Ice climbing championship will be held by Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation of Iran over January 25th 28th in two separate compettion among women and men in Roudbar-e-Qasran region.
According to MSCFI, the first day is put aside for registration. Then, women ice climber will compete in two rounds on January 26, while remaining two days will be dedicated for men’s contests.
This championship is also a tribute to 8 mountaineers, who died in a huge avalanche in middle Alborz range last February.
IMZ News Department
January 14, 2011
A team comprised of 7 ice climbers from Alpine Club of Iran will leave Iran toward France on January 11th, to take part in the 21st International Ice Climbing Festival at Ecrins national park.
Iranian has used to participate in Ecrins Festival since 2007, when a series of mutual cooperation initiated between ACI and GHM. The coming festival will kick off on January 13.
Ali Ali-Pour, Emad Qahremanian, Husain Oloumi-Pour, Omid Safi, Nasir Alizadeh, and Mohammad Hajabolfath are members of 2011 team. They are led by Mohammad.T Bahrevar, who has recently been appointed as technical committee manager of ACI.
IMZ News Department
January 10, 2011
Negar Varshowchi from Hamedan province won the open rock climbing competition at Davoudi gym of Tehran on January 7.
Kadijeh Jahan-Bakhsh, the head judge of this competition said: "Thirty four athletes from 8 provinces entered the contest, which had been divided into four categories of Lead, Bouldering, Speed and Dyno. No one managed a top on lead route graded 5.11d, although in bouldering competition, Nasrin Abdolrahimi from Tehran did all four problems that were rated between 5.10ab and 5.12a, in her first attempt and Negar, the winner of contest did 3 of them in her first attempt."
The final ranking was extracted according to the total points gotten by each competitor during those four sections. Thus Nasrin Abdolrahimi from Tehran and Leyla lekzaei from Hormozgan province respectively followed Negar Varshowchi.
Also, 6 entrants were competing in kid age group. Among them, Negin Afshar, Farnoush Davousi-Pour, and Helia Matlabi rewarded as top climbers.
IMZ News Department
January 9, 2011
Less than one month remaining to the end of climbers list submission deadline of the 11th Fajr Championship, Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran is still insists on holding a preparatory & selection camp among top climbers of the province.
"After a meeting we had together with Tehran’s climbing champions one month ago, they requested a preparatory camp to get qualified for the 11th Fajr Championship that will be held next February. Therefore, on December 27, we released list of 16 men as well as 10 women according to results of the latest competition in Tehran and gave them one week opportunity to register for the camp, but most of them denied," said Kaveh Kashefi, director of MSCCT, "Now, we are losing time, whereas final lists of athletes should be submitted until February, 3rd. However, we are still too keen to hold this camp, which will surely enhance our performance in Fajr Championship,"
IMZ News Department
January 6, 2011
Ski Mountaineering committee at Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation of Iran is going to hold a training course on basics of ski mountaineering.
According to MSCFI, those who want to attend this course should be skillful in winter mountaineering and be good skiers as well.
The registration deadline is set January 10 and the course itself will be executed in second half of the winter.
IMZ News Department
December 28, 2010
Davoudi climbing gym at Tehran is going to host a climbing competition dedicated to women climbers on January 7, 2011.
"This is an open competition with Lead, Bouldering, Speed and Dyno categories where climbers from all over the country could take part," told member of organizer team, Khadijeh Jahan-Bakhsh.
IMZ News Department
December 27, 2010
Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran is going to hold a preparatory camp to pick up best rock climbers of Tehran province for the 11th Fajr climbing championship.
"Ten women and sixteen men are invited to this camp. They are top climbers of bouldering and lead competitions at Tehran climbing championship, which was held last June. January 1, 2010, is assigned as the registration deadline to take part in this event," said Mahmood Iravani, sport climbing committee manager at MSCCT.
The invitees are as follows:
Men’s Bouldering: Masoud Qasemi, Mojtaba Khodaei, Husain Sadeqi, Majid Shokat Maqdam, Milad Babaeian, Artimes Farshad Yeganeh, Farshid Shah-Pasand, Alireza Havaei, Morteza Mohammadi, Amin Ketabi, and Mohammad Ahouei.
Women’s Bouldering: Nasrin Abdolrahimi, Zahra Rezaei, Masoumeh Rajab-Ali, Sara Manafi, Setareh Shakiba, and Solmaz Eshqi.
Men’s Lead: Mojtaba Khodaei, Masoud Qasemi, Amin Ketabi, Artimes Farshad Yeganeh, Husain Rohani, Husain Sadeqi, Alireza Havaei, Ardeshir Sasan-Far, Husain Najaf-Abadi, Farhad Amiri, and Masoud Zeynali.
Women’s Lead: Nasrin Abdolrahimi, Nayereh Khademi, Khadijeh Jahan-Bakhsh, Masoumeh Rajab-Ali, Sara Manafi, Maliheh Nikzad, Setareh Shakiba, and Nasrin Nasiri.
IMZ News Department
December 23, 2010
The 5th round of "Notification & Prevention of Mountain Hazards (NPMH)" plan kicks off today, December 23rd over most-visited routes of Tochal Massif, although the southern slopes of the mountain is completely dry.
One hundred and twenty well trained people from 9 mountaineering clubs in Tehran will act as NPMH representatives during the 5th round. They give services in 8 portable stations over 4 trekking routes of Mt. Tochal just on Thursdays and Fridays (Iranian weekend) as well as country’s official holidays till May, 2011. Simultaneously, a group of 20 people will monitor working stations and progress of activities.
"Hazards will be notified through face to face communications and distributing training brochures to trekkers. They are subjected to most important issues in winter climbing such as avalanche, hypothermia, meteorology, while a few other matters like principles of trekking and protection of mountain environment are necessary to review," said NPMH managers, Kaveh Kashefi.
NPMH is done voluntarily by outdoor sports clubs under the supervision of Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Council of Tehran to reduce the amount of disasters during cold seasons on Tochal Massif. Tehran Disaster Mitigation Management Organization occasionally gives financial aids to this plan.
IMZ News Department
December 23, 2010
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