Beyond the first ramparts of northern Iran’s Alborz Mountains, Gazorkhan village sits beneath an impenetrable-looking wall of jagged ridges in an elongated valley. The surrounding pomegranate ...

2. The Alborz Mountain Range The Alborz Mountains stretch from the borders of Azerbaijan along the Caspian Sea and continue southeast, forming a natural barrier between the Caspian coast and the ...

There’s a lot to love: The country is a trove of unexpectedly stunning landscapes, from the steep, craggy, snowswept Alborz Mountains to vast fields of reddish sand dunes. And the people are ...

Strong winds and snowfall led to what were rare avalanches in the Alborz mountain range, which is popular for hiking and climbing. Deadly avalanches are not a common occurrence in Iran ...

Forty-eight hours later, we went climbing. A bitter wind drove snow through the Alborz Mountains that morning, blurring the contrasts of the landscape: the colossal drop to the glacier on our ...

In the village of Masouleh, nestled deep in northern Iran’s Alborz Mountains, every view is a rooftop view. I gazed out the window onto a series of yellow, mud-brick cottages built on a slope ...