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 ...

Iran may not seem like an obvious vacation ... from the steep, craggy, snowswept Alborz Mountains to vast fields of reddish sand dunes. And the people are, by all reports, much friendlier than ...

Twelve climbers are now known to have died in mountains north of Iran's capital Tehran after ... Tehran lies at the foot of the Alborz mountain range, which has several ski resorts.

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 central ...

Iran’s Red Crescent Society also released photos of rescue workers unloading body bags from a helicopter on Saturday. An Iranian snowboarder descends a slope in the Alborz mountain range north ...

There are many ski resorts on the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges for both amateurs ... resort one of the top ski resorts of Iran. 4 Pooladkaf International Ski Resort This ski resort located 88 ...

Bordered by the Caspian Sea to the north ... are relatively affordable. Iran's topography is diverse and spectacular, with mountains like the Zagros and Alborz ranges, the UNESCO World Heritage ...