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The UIAA meets in Iran

The I.R. Iran Mountaineering Federation will host the UIAA's 2008 General Assembly from October 16-18. The central Asian nation has a lot to offer the global mountaineering and climbing community both in summer and winter with hundreds of peaks above 4,000 metres.

"People do mountaineering and climbing all over Iran, these climbs staged from very simple routes and trekking to very technical winter or summer ascents on mountains such as Damavand (5,671m) or Alam-Kouh (4,850 m), which has a 750m vertical granite face, " says Homayun Bakhtiyari, Foreign Secretary of the I. R. Iran Mountaineering Federation. 

Damavand is the highest point of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is climbed by thousands of nationals and foreign climbers throughout the year. This summer it was designated as the country's first National Natural Heritage Site.

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