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 ...

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 ...

Tehran's Milad Tower in front of the snow-capped Alborz mountains. Borna_Mirahmadian / Shutterstock.com While you probably won’t spot Salman Rushdie waxing down his Burton Custom X board at the ...

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 ...

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The avalanche in the Sheminarat area of the Alborz Mountains – a key tourist destination for climbers – happened on Friday. After three days of search-and-rescue efforts, two bodies were found ...

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 ...

See a few of those effects in the screenshots and video of the Alborz Mountains map below. It almost looks too nice to blow up. Almost. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best ...

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 ...