Third ice climbing festival of Iran was held by Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) in "Roudbar-e-Ghasran" region, north of Tehran from February 10th to 13th , 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.
Therefore, festival’s time mainly spent for training ice climbing and dry tooling principles on "Abnik" icefall and icefalls of "Hameloon" ice climbing school, " told festival’s coordinator, Farnoosh Raeisi.
Since its initiation three years ago, Iran’s ice climbing festival has held in "Roudbar-e-Ghasran" region in middle Alborz range. We asked Farnoush about the reason and she said: "In comparison to other ice climbing spots over the country, icefalls in "Roudbar-e-Ghasran" are more appropriate for this kind of festival firstly due to their accession to roads, secondly they offer ice climbing possibility over longer time in cold seasons and third reason is diversity of icefalls from the point of difficulty, which varies from slab icefalls like "Abnik" to steeper ones like "Bagh-Gol" and icefalls of "Hameloon" school."
Masoud Hamidi beside Mohammad Saboori and Afshin Yousefi were members of technical board of third festival.
News Source: Mountainzone.ir
