Expeditions

An expedition page on this site is a way to see the shape of a journey before you write. It is not a product with a price. Where a departure, a guide, or a cost is not confirmed, the page says so in those words: contact us for current expedition details and availability.

Ski mountaineering expeditions

Ski mountaineering, as this site uses the phrase, is a journey in which the ascent and the ski descent are one project, usually over several days, in terrain that is not patrolled. The Damavand and Alam Kuh outlines are the two references. They are not bookings.

Ski touring

Ski touring here means travel on skins, for a day or for several, on snow that nobody has prepared. Zard Kuh and the Dena are the Zagros references. A resort piste in the Alborz, where those exist, is a different activity and is not what these pages describe.

High-altitude ski ascents

Height changes the day before steepness does. Damavand is the objective on this site where that is obviously true. Read the Damavand outline and the destination page together. The elevation dispute is part of the planning, not a footnote to skip.

Backcountry skiing

Backcountry, on this site, means unsecured slopes: no markers, no control work, no ski patrol you can assume will arrive. Every outline above is backcountry in that sense. The decision is about snow and consequence.

Technical alpine winter travel

Some ground asks for the skis to come off. Alam Kuh is the reference, because the wall, the glacier basin, and the approaches are not a snow dome. The Alam Kuh outline is deliberately short on grades.

Current outlines