Takht-e Soleyman Massif ( fa, گرانکوه تخت سليمان) is a subrange of central

Alborz The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs nort ...

mountains. In the area, about 160 distinct peaks higher than 4,000m are distinguishable, with the highest, most famous, and most technical one:

Alam Kuh ʿAlam-Kūh ( fa, علم‌کوه; also: ''Alam Kooh'') – Mount Alam – is a mountain in Alborz mountain range in north of Iran, Mazandaran Province, forming a peak of Takht-e Suleyman Massif. It is located in Kelardasht District of Mazandar ...

, 4,850m. The area can be captured inside a rectangle of 30 km width and 40 km length. The massif is limited to

Taleqan Taleqan ( fa, طالقان, also Romanized as Ṭâleqân) is a city in the capital of Taleqan County, Alborz Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western A ...

valley from south,

Kelardasht Kelardasht ( fa, كلاردشت, also Romanized as Kalārdasht) is a Kurdish city and capital of Kelardasht District, in Chalus County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,921, in 3,361 families. The city co ...

green plane from east, Abbas Abad rain forest & thick vegetated hills/slopes at north, and Shahsavar rain forests and

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at west.

Discovery

The original and pre Islamic name is Takht-e-Jamshid - The Takht-e-Soleiman region was virtually unknown until the 1930s.

Freya Stark Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 18939 May 1993), was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays ...

travelled there in 1931 and described her thwarted efforts to climb Takht-e Suleyman in ''The Valleys of the Assassins''.

Douglas Busk Douglas Laird Busk (1906–1990) was a British diplomat, mountaineer and geographer. Personal life Busk was born on 15 July 1906 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, also spending some time at Princeton University. He married Bridget ...

, a British mountaineer, explored the area in 1932, and made the first recorded ascent of

in 1933 via the east ridge.D. L. Busk, ''Climbing in the Takht-i-Suleiman Group, N. Persia'': The Alpine Journal, v. 47, p. 299-309 (1935). Later on, Busk along with Professor Bobek made a detailed survey of this area. In 1936 the north-west ridge (called ''Germans flank'') of

was climbed for the first time by German mountaineers, which was considered a great achievement among European climbers.

References

External links

Introduction to Takht-e Soleyman Massif
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