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“After over a week of travel, Anne Gilbert Chase works her way up a splitter crack,   



“After over a week of travel, Anne Gilbert Chase works her way up a splitter crack, a warm-up before she and her partners tackle Alam Kuh’s big walls. Most of the Iranians we met were aiming to climb the steep, clean aid lines in the middle of the main wall, but our team was in search of a new free line, which led to less traveled terrain and some questionable rock.”

Words and photo: Beth Wald Read the story here: