Takht-e Suleyman Massif

Takht-e Soleyman Massif (Persian: گرانکوه تخت سليمان) is a subrange of central Alborz mountains, in northern Iran.

The massif is limited to Taleqan valley from south, Kelardasht green plane from east, Abbas Abad rain forest & thick vegetated hills/slopes at north, and Shahsavar rain forests and Se Hezar valley at west.

The original and pre Islamic name is Takht-e-Jamshid - The Takht-e-Soleiman region was virtually unknown until the 1930s.

Freya Stark travelled there in 1931 and described her thwarted efforts to climb Takht-e Suleyman in The Valleys of the Assassins.

[2] Douglas Busk, a British mountaineer, explored the area in 1932,[3] and made the first recorded ascent of Alam Kuh in 1933 via the east ridge.