"Welcome to RockRovers Climbing Team's blog!"
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RockRovers is the first and the only exclusively rock-climbing group in Zanjan Province, and the first bilingual climbing blog in Iran.
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The members of this team include:
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The team's outdoor-programs and this blog's contents are mostly focused on rock-climbing; however, mountaineering, ice-climbing, caving, forest-hiking... are also included.
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RockRovers is not dependent by any means on Board of Mountaineering, Mountaineering Federation or any other groups, and acts quite independently and free.
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The objective of the blog's notes is to promote the level of climbers knowledge and relationship, and to inform them on fresh climbing news which includes different parts such as Iran's News, World's News, Scientific Notes,and also Programs' Reports and Photo Gallery; that all of these instances are a little step in order to give service to the extinguishing (decreasing) generation of outdoor-climbers in Iran (or at least in Zanjan)!
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The whole content of this blog will be both in Farsi and English.
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Certainly, your creative ideas, suggestions, and of course criticisms will assist us in our way to do our duties much more better.
in hope of a lasting friendship! 
Hi guys,
I’m not gonna update the English blog of RockRovers for some period of time. So, follow it in Farsi (if you can read Farsi)! Still you can have a look at my photoblog here:
http://www.photoblog.com/rockrovers
For more information or asking any question contact me with:
farshad_esmailzadeh@yahoo.com
Sharma Redpoints Clark Mountain Project
By Dougald MacDonald / The Mountain World
Chris Sharma has completed his 250-foot mega-project at Clark Mountain in Southern California!
Though no name or grade has emerged, Sharma called the pitch “for sure the hardest route he's ever done,” according to Big Up Productions’ Cooper Roberts, who filmed the ascent.
The climb fires up the center of Clark Mountain’s third tier, (a.k.a. the Monastery), climbing about 175 feet to the lip of the enormous cave, followed by approximately 80 feet of less steep limestone. Sharma topped out on flat ground when he redpointed the climb.
Randy Leavitt, who discovered Clark Mountain limestone and developed many of the routes at the cliff, placed the first bolts on this line more than a decade ago, envisioning it as a three-pitch route. When Sharma saw the line, he rebolted it and began working it as a single pitch.
“If you’re going to climb up to 90 feet of climbing, you might as well just go deep-water soloing,” Sharma said in the Big Up film King Lines (2007), which featured his attempts on the Clark project. “If you’re going through the bother of tying in, you might as well climb something really big. These giant 200-plus-foot pitches are kind of the next level.”
Sharma, 27, put in many days of effort on the climb over the past year and a half. Because there are very few rests—“one shake,” he says in King Lines—he skipped bolts through difficult sequences, often taking 60-foot falls as a result.
Sharma has previously redpointed several 5.15 routes, including Realization and La Rambla, as well as the deep-water solo Es Pontas in Mallorca—a climb he did not grade but called the hardest he had done. Until now.
More details about the Clark Mountain climb will be published here when they are available.
Date of Ascent: September 11, 2008
Sources: Bigupproductions.com, Climbing.com
The dispatched team of Iran Mountaineering Board of Laborers (workers) managed to achieve to the 8047 meter high summit of
Four members of the team could finally stand on top of the summit after a withdrawal and passing a period of unfavorable weather, said Hasan Najjarian the leader of the expedition.
In addition to the Team of Laborers, a team of Tehran Board of Mountaineering and another from
!RockRovers congratulates this glorious victory to all of those dear ones
Hello dear friends,
The Climbing Championship of the 2nd Iranian Athletic Olympiad is running for girls and boys and in two fields of speed and lead climbing in Zanjan from July 26th to August 7th, 2008.
Read the news and complete results here:
Sabalan, the Bride of Iran’s Mountains
According to the yearly sport calendar of Mountaineering Club of University of Zanjan, ascending the third highest
In the morning of Sunday, 19th of July, 2008 at 6 o’clock we get on the minibus and accompanying 7 guys set out to
On Sunday we get up at 6 and climb to the summit after having a brief breakfast. The weather is fairly hot and no much snow is left. At 10:30 we achieve to the summit and the unique lake on top of the bride of
The participants:
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Farshad Haddadi
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Masood Ghaleyii Monafared Zanjani
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Mehrdad Ghorbani
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Afshin Ebrahimi Jam
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Amin Moazzeni
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Alireza Jerjisi
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Farshad Esmailzadeh (leader)
more
The program of AramDelan Mountaineering Group in this weekend was to exercise on Goljik wall. In Thursday evening, I come along with them and move to Goljik wall with the height of more than 150 meters in 55km south-west of Zanjan.
After having our dinner, the clock shows 11 at night when we decide to climb "Datik" route. this route with 3 pitches and totally about 80 meters height, leads to an easy arête that ends to the summit and was opened and equipped by the members of Tolou Mountaineering Group of Zanjan (Mohsen Sanati, Shahriyar Behzadian, and Naghi Taheri). Climbing this route with the grade of 5.10 at night is very enjoyable.
Tomorrow morning, we keep on climbing by working on sport routes "Tarrahan" 5.11ab and "Barf" 5.12a.
Participants:
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Meisam Aramideh
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Shahram Eivazi
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Behzad Masoomi
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Afshin Ebrahimi Jam
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Hamid Montajabi
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Behrooz Ghahremani
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Farshad Esmailzadeh
