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Crack of shah8/30/2023 ![]() I finished the fourth pitch, but it was too late to continue to the summit. ![]() The cracks were full of ice and the slabs were slippery. The fourth pitch, a wide crack, was too dangerous because of loose footholds and lack of protection. ![]() This wall tops out at 2,300m.ĭuring my first attempt, with Ali Karimi and Mehdi Farahani, I opened three pitches. I tried to climb a ca 300m wall on this peak, north of the village of Khor and near the Pahnesar ski resort, three times. Close to the Amir Kabir reservoir, about 1.5 hours’ drive from Tehran, is a huge, rocky summit called Shah Dej (“Kingdom Castle,” also spelled Shahdzh), which has big granite cliffs that nobody had ever attempted. Many rock towers in the area are still unclimbed. Alamkouh or Alamkoh), with one of the biggest granite walls in the country. North of Tehran, a spectacular road leads to the Caspian Sea, passing numerous walls and high mountains, including Alam Kooh (4,851m, a.k.a.
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