Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) is going to hold the 4^th biennial of mountain logs and films on October, 2010.
This event is supposed to be held in two categories of "written accounts" and "films", where the jury members also intend to choose 3 most technical ascents of two recent years based on the accounts.
The organizer team at ACI invite all interested ones all over the world to send their films or written accounts to the festival’s secretarial at: P.O Box 19395-5511, Apt. 12, No 590, close to Lalehzar ave., Enqelab st., Tehran.

Mountain Environment Protection society along with graduate faculty of environment at university of Tehran and FAO is going to hold a course about fundamentals of mountain environment in late May.
They organizers are going to give speeches on a few titles such as: mountain’s weather, mountains erosion and deterioration, cover crops and their impacts on soil protection and water resources, mountain hazards and tourism.
This course is planned to be carried out in 10 sessions, each of 3 hours length.

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April 28, 2010

In the 50^th anniversary of Dhaula’s first ascent by a Swiss/Austrian expedition, Iran’s national expedition topped out Dhaulagiri early this morning, April 26^th.
According to MFI’s official website, they set C3 yesterday at 7250m and were the first summiteers of the mountain this season. The exact number of summiteers is unknown yet.

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April 26, 2010

Ascending Island Peak on Friday 23^rd, Iranian "Kaveh" expedition attained their second 6000ers summit in Himalaya this spring.
Keyvan Khoshkou, Karim Nad-Alian, Ali Ali-Mohammadi, Ali Taheri and Ropen Sarkisian are now on a trek toward Everest BC.

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April 24, 2010

After two venturesome attempts to reach C3 on Annapurna’s north side, Ehsan partovi-Nia returned back to BC on Fridays’ night, April 23^rd.
His contact in Iran, Amir Moghimi said: "Ehsan left C2 alone toward C3 on Thursday, while the upper portions of the mountain were accumulated with considerable amount of fresh snow. Suddenly a Serac broken above caused a big avalanche nearby, while he had stopped for a short rest midway. Afterwards, he decided to descend. In the way down to C2 while he was filming, Ehsan checks the second danger by getting trapped in a crevasse."
The next day, he took the trail to C3 along with South Korean, Miss Oh Eun-Sun and her escorts. They were going up in a couloir that an avalanche came down and sent him a few hundred meters below.
"By fortune, these three events didn"t cause serious injuries to him, except a little contusion and now he is resting in BC," Amir Told.

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April 24, 2010

Keyvan Khoshkhou, Ali Ali-Mohammadi, Ali Taheri, Karim Nad-Alian and Ropen Sarkisian topped out Mera-Peak on Friday, April 16^th.
Afterwards they set out toward Island Peak, which is also a 6000ers via "Amphulaptsa" Cole.

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April 22, 2010

Ehsan Partovi-Nia should choose one of Korean or Catalonian teams to join for for non-individual summit push in few coming days in few coming days.
"Descending from C3, Ehsan has arrived BC on 16:00 local time on Tuesday, April 13^th for a few days of rest before summit push. During last two days, he had two invitations from Catalonian and Korean teams to join for the summit push together. He has postponed his final decision to the time Koreans come back from acclimatization process in C2," his friend, Amir Moghimi told.
According to weather forecasts, bad weather is so probable for Annapurna region from tomorrow on for 4 days.

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An eight-day ski mountaineering program will begin on 21^st of April in memorial of Farshad Khalili in "Takht-e-Solaiman" region, west Alborz.
This program is organized by a few of his apprentices along with Tehran’s mountaineering council and those who want to take part should have previous ski touring experiences in the altitude. They will do ski touring at 4000m altitude around "Heasar-Chal" valley in southern side of Takht-e-Solaiman region.
Farshad Khalili was one of the pioneers of ski mountaineering in Iran, who died of avalanche hit in middle Alborz last February. He was also the head of ski mountaineering committee in Iran’s mountaineering federation.

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April 17, 2010

In order to make a complete analysis of mountain disasters since last spring, Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) has called all specialists to review these events by more details.
Abbas Mohammadi, head of ACI told IMZ: "This idea originated after the big avalanche in middle Alborz range, where 7 people along with famous Farshad Khalili were hit to their death on February 4, 2010 to bold it as one of the most disastrous days in country’s mountaineering history."
"Also on May 4, 2009, Mehdi Etemad-Far fell to his death, while pushing Dhaulagiri’s summit in a bad weather and after that, Abbas Jafari, a well-known alpinist and one of the foregoers of wilderness exploring in Iran missed on September 7, 2009, when kayaking in Trishuli river in Nepal," Mohammadi said, "these three happenings persuade us to entitle our idea; "Why experienced people entrapped evitable disasters in wilderness?"."

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March 11, 2010

Third ice climbing festival of Iran was held by Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) in "Roudbar-e-Ghasran" region, north of Tehran from February 10^th to 13^th , thanks to Lavasan Mountaineering Group and Hameloon Ice Climbing School who were of great assistances and supports of this event.
"Forty four enthusiastic people from Tehran, Boroujerd, Mahabad, Rasht and Roudsar cities participated in this event who were mostly qualified as beginner ice climbers.