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Mount Damavand from the Polour area on 6 December 2024, snow on the upper cone and a settlement in the shadowed foreground.

Destinations

Four Iranian mountain areas this site is willing to describe. Each has its own page, its own photographs, and its own limits.

Damavand from the Polour area, 6 December 2024. Photograph by Safa Daneshvar, CC BY 4.0.

The Alborz and the Zagros are the two systems. Inside them, this site starts with four objectives that international ski mountaineers ask about: Damavand, Alam Kuh, Zard Kuh, and Dena. Other ranges exist. They will be added when there is something accurate to say, not to lengthen a menu.

Elevations are printed only with the disagreement attached. Access notes name corridors, not driving times. Nothing below is a snow report.

  1. Mount Damavand from the Polour area on 6 December 2024, snow on the upper cone and a settlement in the shadowed foreground.
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    Mount Damavand

    Alborz · Mazandaran, Iran

    Iran's highest widely cited summit, a volcanic cone above the Haraz corridor, skied when snow cover and weather allow.

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  2. A glacial lake with turquoise water and broken ice below the steep rock walls of Alam Kuh, snow still covering the upper slopes.
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    Alam Kuh

    Takht-e Soleyman · Mazandaran, Iran

    A steep Alborz peak above Kelardasht, with a documented glacier basin and published heights that do not agree.

    Destination page
  3. The snow-streaked limestone crest of Zard Kuh above the Bazoft valley, with cloud in the gorge and scrub on the lower slopes.
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    Zard Kuh

    Zagros · Kuhrang, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran

    The high crest of the central Zagros above Kuhrang and the Bazoft, with winter snow and a summit figure of 4,221 metres in the sources that agree.

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  4. The Dena massif from the Semirom road, snow on the high crest and cultivated green valleys in front.
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    Dena Mountains

    Zagros · Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran

    The highest massif of the Zagros, a long crest near Yasuj, with a summit height that published sources do not agree on.

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