Mohammad Jalali

Nature and mountains became part of Mohammad’s life since the time he joined his brother in climbing around his hometown Arak at the age of 10. One day when he was at school, he saw his PE coach training for rock climbing. This incident sparked Mohammad’s curiosity about the sport, a curiosity that gave its way to a life-long passion for big walls when his coach brought him to Lajvar Big Wall. When he saw Lajvar, the first though that came to his mind was if anyone could climb such a big wall. Four years after his introduction to the amazing big wall, he himself became the one who made it to the top. Now he is a professional rock climber who has set more than 10 routes on Alam, Bisotun and Lajvar big walls. When he is alone on a wall, with no audience and no competition, Mohammad feels a peaceful closeness with himself. Rock climbing blesses him with a rare perspective of the surrounding sceneries and gives him a special feeling by touching rocks that few people have touched and a chance to strengthen his personality.

Instructor

Sport climbing coaching (3rd degree)
Rock climbing (advanced instructor)
Trekking
Trekking Coaching (3rd degree)
Search and Rescue Basics
Technical Rescue Basics

Coach

Rock Climbing (2nd degree)
Indoor Climbing (2nd degree)
Outdoor Climbing (2nd degree)
Route setter (2nd degree)
Sport Climbing (2nd degree)
Ice Climbing (3rd degree)
Caving (3rd degree)
Trekking (1st degree)
Search and Rescue Basics
Technical Rescue Basics
Courses

Leading Mountaineering teams (Azerbaijan under UIAA)
Outdoor Route Setting (Azerbaijan under UIAA)
Rope Access (Industrial Rope Access Trade Association) (level 3)

Responsibilities

Chairman of the technical committee of Mountaineering and Sport Climbing (Markazi Province)
Coach to Iran’s National Rock Climbing Omid Team

Experience

National Team’s Selection Camp for Everest Expedition (1998)
Ascended different Bisotun big wall routes
Ascended different Lajvar big wall routes
Winter ascent of Mount Alam’s big wall (National Team’s Selection Camp for ascending Lhotse)
Set different sport climbing routes
Summited Nepal’s Island Peak (6189m)
Ascended Demir Kazik Northern Wall (Turkey) from a new route
Ascended Yakhar’s central and eastern gap on Mount Damavand (Free climbing)
Ascended Mount Alam’s Spilet Glacier
Ascended Sabalan’s northern glacier (free climbing)
Ascended most of Iran’s high summits, walls, glaciers and caves in different seasons
One-day winter ascents of multiple peaks (including Damavand’s south face)

Participation

National Team’s Selection Camp for Everest Expedition (1998)
Setting 10 long routes on Lajvar Wall
Setting the Araki Route on Mount Alam’s wall (as the technical manager)
Setting Farda Route on Bisotun Wall
Repairing and resetting routes on Lajvar Wall
Building shelters and repairing different mountain huts