Sabalan

Mount Sabalan, also in the Elburz mountain range, is a dormant volcano. It is Iran's third tallest peak, standing at 15,748 feet. Beautiful scenery abounds on the hills. A lake at the summit of the mountain is frozen for most of the year. Mineral springs with purported medicinal qualities flow down the mountainside. Nature has fashioned out a magnificent Eagle Statue on the hillside. In Iran, the mountain is a well-known tourist destination. It also has religious importance for those who follow the Zoroastrian religion. These people think that Mount Sabalan was where Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism, pondered.

The climate atop the mountain is continental, with hot, dry summers and bitterly cold, snowy winters. In late autumn, winter, and spring, precipitation mostly falls as snow, and it's enough to keep seven glaciers at the top of over 4,000 meters alive (13,000 ft). In the 1970s, the largest of them were more than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) long. There are also large rock glaciers, some of which are more than 3 kilometers (2 miles) long.

Height: 15,784 feet

Location: Meshkinshahr, Iran