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Skiing in Iran?!?!
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Quick! What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word, Iran?
I'll bet quite a number of things come to mind but I but not a single one involves skiing.
Cuttin' up the slopes, in fact, is probably the last image most people have of Iran and yet the country is blessed with the marvelous Alboraz mountain range and some of this planet's highest ski slopes.
Recently, Outside Magazine sent writer Josh Dean into the heart of this Axis of Evil (Bush's words, not mine) to shred and make friends. Although the article itself isn't online (August 2007), Outside Magazine has put together a short gallery of photographs from the trip taken by Alex Tehrani. Take five minutes to look it over and your impression of Iran will be forever changed.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hester Aug 8th 2007 9:10AM
it is really a wonderful information for travel-lovers.
ouj Aug 7th 2007 4:40PM
Skiing is not something that comes first into mind either when someone mentions Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Spain or Lebanon - yet it's possible to ski in all of them. I think even Corsica (the island in the Mediterranean Sea) has at least had some lift served slopes.
I'd love to try Sierra Nevada in Spain some day. People say that on a clear day it's possible to see the coast of Northern Africa (Morocco) from the slopes.
It's actually quite fun to try and find the ski resorts from these (and other) exotic countries with Google Earth. As it happens, I had a look at some of Iran's resorts north of Tehran just a couple of days ago.
By the way, I believe they used to have separate slopes for women in Iran at least in some resorts. I don't know what's the situation right now.