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| Page Type: Route Location: Iran, Asia Lat/Lon: 35.95530°N / 52.10760°E Route Type: walk up & rocky & Basic snow Time Required: A few days Difficulty: ----
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| Page By: Damavand Created/Edited: Nov 21, 2004 / Nov 21, 2004 Object ID: 162974 Hits: 1442 Loading... Page Score: 86.58% - 3 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
Approach
If you want to climb west route of Damavand mount , you must start from Ploor village on border of Haraz road simmilary to south routh . But from Ploor you must go by a strong car to west side of mount .
When you go by auto to west domain , you see Laar lake in west and is very beautiful .
Route Description
You get a strong auto in Pploor village .After about 2 hours you reach to start climbig point and you must to land .
From this point you see the west shelter . After 2.5 hours climbing you reach the shelter .The route is easy and clear and you see the shelter .
This shelter is very good and famiuse : This is Simorgh shelter ( 4200 m ) .
See sunset from this shelter and enjoy . Have a good night .
Day 2 : From this shelter to top of peak almost takes 6 hours with a heavy knapsack .The route is very clear .
This route is an easy rocky ridge and has 2 part . First part is after imorgh shelter and is longer .
Second part is smaller but difficalty , because it have placed above 5200 m. and reach to top .
Last part of route is a hard sandy route and when tired climbers reach to that point , probebly the weather is windy or stormy .
Above this sandy hill , you reach to Damavand peak (5671 m ).If you have climbed with your knapsack , you can return from any other routes .Otherwise you must return from same rocky ridge that you've climbed to top .
Essential Gear
winter cloths in summer , This mount is cold and windy
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