RadioFarda - French and Iranian researchers have teamed up to find out what triggered the mysterious recent flash flood in Gazanak village at the foot of mount Damavand, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran. At 5,610 meters (roughly 18,400 feet) above sea level, Damavand is the highest peak in the Middle East and the highest ...

IFP - The Perseid Meteor Shower, which peaked on Sunday night across the world, dazzled a huge number of Iranian skygazers who flocked to desert and mountainous areas to watch the beautiful astronomical event. Meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, running into the stream of debris that the comet leaves ...

IFP - The Damavand 2018 Symposium was recently held on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the first European ascent of Mount Damavand by Austrian climber, botanist and scholar Theodor Kotschy. The event was held on July 20 at the Niavaran Historical and Cultural Complex, north of Tehran. The ceremony was attended by ambassadors of Austria ...

MNA Secretary-General of Iranian National Commission for UNESCO Sadollah Nasiri Gheydari announced that efforts to inscribe Mount Damavand on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as Irans first natural site, failed due to extensive damages. Speaking in a local ceremony on Tuesday, Gheydari said instead of Mount Damavand, the Lut Desert was inscribed ...

Mizan | Mostafa Roudaki: Mount Damavand, a potentially active volcano, is the highest peak in Iran and the Middle East, and the highest volcano in Asia. At nights, the stars shining above the Mount Damavand, the second most prominent in Asia after Mount Everest, add to its beauty and grandeur.  

Press TV- A senior Iranian sports official says there is no more hope to find the two Malaysian mountain climbers who have gone missing in an Iranian mountain range alive. Reza Zarei, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation, said on Sunday that temperatures have plunged to below minus 50 degrees ...

Mount Damavand, a potentially active volcano, is the highest peak in Iran and the Middle East as well as the highest volcano in Asia. It has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore. This peak is located in the middle of the Alborz range. The mountain is located near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, in Amol County, Mazandaran Province,...

TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) French licensed surveyors will meet their Iranian counterparts at the top of the Mount Damavand (Iran), a press release of Cluster Montagne, Mountain Development France has written. Mehr News English Service has found about the event from the press release; From June 26th until July 13th, a French team consisting of 14 trained ...