Iranian lady, Leila Esfandyari fell to her death, while attempting to return back from GII’s summit this noon, July 22^nd.
According to reports, Leila was on summit push with a group of Iranian climbers this morning. A few of them reached the top along with Leila, but in the way back to C3 in a place a bit lower than the summit, she fell.
Iranian climbers are all resting in C3 now. More details are expected for tomorrow.

IMZ News Department
July 22, 2011

Iranian climber, Davoud Rekabi qualified for semifinal round in men’s lead competition at IFSC Championship.
According to IFSC’s official website, Mmen’ lead qualification took place on July 21^st, where 130 climbers competed in two separate groups to enter the second stage. Finally, twenty six climbers from fifteen countries passed with Iranian Davoud Rekabi as 17^th climber. There were also four other Iranian leaders, who placed 69^th, 77^th, 101^st and 109^th. Semifinal round will be executed tomorrow, July 23^rd.

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July 22, 2011

Arash Mountaineers are approaching C2 on SW face of Mt. Broad-Peak since this morning, July 19.
"They entered C1 last night with heavy loads including mostly technical gears. They left the tents this morning to reach 6500 m, where C2 will set up. The portion of the route between C1 and C2 is a bit dangerous and needs fixing ropes," Kiyoumars Babazadeh reportedly told.
Arash Mountaineers are remotely checked by Kazak star, Denis Urubko in this expedition. Amid preparatory camps, they underwent an eight-day stage in Kazakhstan instructed by Denis last March.

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July 19, 2011

Husain Bahmanyar and Mehdi Amidi topped Mt. Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world respectively on May 19^th and 21^st.
These two were members of an international expedition comprised of climbers from Spain, Australia, USA, Britain and Mexico. They reached summit in two parties on last Thursday and Saturday.

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May 21, 2011

Iran’s mountaineering star Azim Qeychisaz reached summit on Kanchenjunga yesterday, May 20th and put record as the first Iranian to achieve this goal.
"Summit push started from C4 on Thursday at night. He was on Kanchenjunga’s main summit at 6:00 A.m. local time on friday and came back to BC this noon," MSFI reported.
By the way, Azim was climbing together with Mingma Sherpa, who succeeded to finish all fourteen 8000ers and got the title as the first Nepalese. These two climbers were on Nanga-Parbat’s summit last summer too.
Born in 1981 in Tabriz, NW of Iran Azim has already topped Everest (2005), BroadPeak (2008), Dhaulagiri (2010) and Nanga-Parbat (2010).

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May 21, 2011

More than one month after reaching Kanch’s bottom, Azim Qeychi-Saz is now in C4 at 7700 m hoping for summit in coming few days.
"Climbers attempting on Kanchenjunga this season have been settled in C3 and C4. Summits are hoped over May 19th -21nd," Azim told on his call to MSFI.
Despite summits on other 8000ers in Nepal, no summit has been reported this season on Kanchenjunga, the 3rd highest peak in the world.

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May 19, 2011

Iran’s mountaineering star Azim Qeychisaz reached summit on Kanchenjunga yesterday, May 20th and put record as the first Iranian to achieve this goal.
"Summit push started from C4 on Thursday at night. He was on Kanchenjunga’s main summit at 6:00 A.m. local time on friday and came back to BC this noon," MSFI reported.
By the way, Azim was climbing together with Mingma Sherpa, who succeeded to finish all fourteen 8000ers and got the title as the first Nepalese. These two climbers were on Nanga-Parbat’s summit last summer too.
Born in 1981 in Tabriz, NW of Iran Azim has already topped Everest (2005), BroadPeak (2008), Dhaulagiri (2010) and Nanga-Parbat (2010).

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May 21, 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.

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February 10, 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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January 26, 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

Amadablam summit reporting in ACI’s monthly meeting

The 95^th monthly meeting of Alpine Club of Iran will kick off at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 19^th 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.

The 4^th Ice Climbing Festival of Iran being organized

Alpine Club of Iran is going to hold the 4^th ice climbing festival from February 1^st to 4^th 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