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(K2Climb.net) He summited K2 in 2007. Last year time came for Nanga Parbat, in the first Iranian expedition led by a woman and also the first to have a corporate sponsor. This season, Kazem Faridian is not joining fellow mountaineers in Pakistan. He is held in Iran's most notorious jail, Evin prison, section 7, friends and Iranian news agencies report. Arrested on June 25Following the Presidential Election this summer, protesters (mostly young) swarmed major city streets in Iran and sent tweets to western media about their...
Ready, steady... preliminary list of expeditions to Pakistan
