Iran Mountain Guide Association

History of skiing in Iran

Iran has mountainous climate and has snowy heights. History of skiing in Iran backs to 2000 years before Christ. In ancient Iran people used special equipment with wood and other things to glide on snow. But modern ski entered Iran in 1930. In fact Two foreigner groups that came to Iran propagate the modern ski in Iran. First group were the Germans that came to Iran to built rail ways. They used to go to alborz footlands for sking. Native people were interested with what they did. Other regions like firooz kuh, haji abad, Shemshak were other sites Germans used.
Hasan fazeli might be the first Iranian guy who learned ski professionally. When he was 15 years old he used to go to haji abad region with Germans and ski there with them. Few years later because of avalanche 3 people died following that (reza shah) king of Iran at that time forbid skiing in that region.

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History of skiing in iran - iranmountainguide Iran has mountainous climate and has snowy heights. History of skiing in iran backs to 2000 years befor Christ in ancient iran people used...