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.

Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) called ice climbers from all over the country to participate in the "3^rd Ice climbing Festival of Iran".
According to their official announcement, this festival will be held from February 10^th to 13^th again in "Roudbar-e-Ghasran" district, middle Alborz
During recent three years, "Iran’s Ice Climbing Festival" has been held by ACI after its delegation’s return from annual French Ice climbing festival in "Ecrins".

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In order to mark December 11, International Mountain Day, Alpine Club of Iran will hold "Mountain Ceremony" in "Ararat Sport and Cultural Club of Tehran" tomorrow evening (Friday 10th December).
"This is just a gathering for mountaineers to meet each other and revive their allegiance in protecting mountains environment. Besides, Mohammad Darvish as a member of scientific board in Forests and Pastures researches Institute will give a lecture on the theme of "Disaster Risk Management in Mountains". He will talk about the disasters caused by destroying mountains environments," Told API’s president, Abbaas Mohammadi.
According to Mohammadi, some photos by Late Iranian echo-tourism expert, Abbas Jafari will be exhibited in this ceremony.
In addition to Ararat Club, Tehran’s Council of Mountaineering will cooperate with API in this ceremony.

Mountain Environment Protection Society (MEPS) in cooperation with Tehran’s city council will held "Mountain Festival" from December 9^th to 11^th to celebrate International Mountain Day 2009.
"After the UN International Year of Mountains in 2002, its general assembly has designated 11^th of December as an "International Mountain Day" from 2003 onward to raise public awareness of mountains environment and its influence on life. As in other countries, mountains protection society in Iran follows up to International Mountain Day with a few celebrations and one of them is "Mountain Festival", which started last year," Said festival’s secretary, Shahnam Jabbari.
According to Shahnam, the beginning program of the festival is specialist’s meeting about "Disaster Risk Management in Mountains", which is the theme for International Mountain Day 2009. This congress will be held on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12, in "Melal" culture hall located inside "gheytariye" garden, north of Tehran.

The 2^nd superior rock climbing festival opened in Mahdi-Shahr city, north east of Semnan province on Tuesday, 17^th of November.
"Thirty climbers are here from cities of Tehran, Arak, Khoram-Abad, Semnan, Ghorveh, Ghazvin, Karaj and Mahdi-Shahr and two French guys as "GHM" representatives. They have all come here just for big wall climbing, bouldering and sport climbing. However, on the first day only 10 attendees climbed a few pitches on a vertical and somehow overhanging, conglomeratic wall in "Karkouh" canyon," Said festival manager, Farnoush Raeisi.
According to Farnoush, Francois Bernard and Antoine Cayrol presented some of their activities in fields of alpine climbing, big wall climbing and surveying poles.

"Tabiat" Institute of Tehran will hold a ceremony to remember famous Iranian Adventure Journalist, Abbas Jafari, who has been vanished in Nepal Last September.

Abbas was at rafting in Trishuli River on September 7^th, when suddenly his kayak capsized and he went missing. His wife, Farkhondeh Sadegh along with a large team ran an abortive search operation for a few weeks.
This ceremony will be performed from 17:00 to 20:00 on November 13^th at "Paydari" culture hall of Tehran.

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November 2, 2009

  ACI second superior festival of rock climbing

Second superior festival of rock climbing will be held between 17^th and 20 ^th of November in "Karkouh" canyon in the north side of Semnan Province.
This festival is the result of ACI's call for big walls detection in last July.

Karkouh canyon’s offers various types of climbing, so that festival is open to everyone interested in sport climbing, bouldering and big wall climbing.
"Late in 2007, ACI carried out the first festival as a training cproject, whose instructors were invited form High mountain Group  "GHM", but this time we have chosen a different style by encouraging climbers to open new routes on virgin rocks and walls.

 Two members of "GHM" will attend this festival to expand mutual collaborations between ACI and GHM.
The two french Mountain instructors are Francois BERNARD and Antoine CAYROL.

Band-e-Yakhchal region got rid of junks

In order to mark the day for mountain’s environment cleanness, climbers and environmentalists of Tehran city spent 24^th and 25^th of September picking junks from Band-e-Yakhchal region. Band-e-Yakhchal is name of a location in south slopes of Mt. Tochal in Tehran’s north side, which is considered as a nearest and most attractive place for city’s rock climbers.
In this event that organized by Iran’s Alpine Club, waste materials were collected from "Shervin" hut in the upper part of the region to woodland at the foot of "Band" and transferred outside.
Twenty sixth day of September has been determined by Iran"s Mountaineering Federation as a day for cleaning mountain’s environments since 1988. In the nearest holiday to September, 26^th, mountaineers from all over the country usually devote their time to clean mountain’s environment in their surroundings.

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September 30, 2009

Iran’s national sport climbing team composed of eight men and women will set out toward South Korea tomorrow in order to take part in 18^th Asian Climbing Championship.
According to Iran’s Mountaineering and Sport Climbing report, Sobhan Jafari, Mohsen Mohammad-Nezhad, Hamid-Reza Ghanimati, Navid Soufi-Zadeh, Reza Pakdel-Moghaddam and Davoud Rekaabi along with Sadjadeh Soltani-Nezhad and Elnaz Rekaabi as female competitors are the members of this team. They will accompanied by Ali-Reza Bagheri, Mohammad Vahhabi, Nafiseh Mohammadi and Ahmad Shir-Mohammad as coaches.
It is really appreciable that beside regular competitions in Speed, Lead, Boulder, Dyno and Relay Speed, there will be an opportunity for disabled climbers to reveal their great volition during Para-Climbing comps.
The competitions will start on Thursday, August 27^th in Chuncheon city of South Korea.

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August 24, 2009