Demavend

And for those who love the mountain heights there is the beautiful and picturesque Mount Demavend, rising some 19,400 feet above sea-level.

In the fresh keen air of evening the cone of Demavend was painted in white on the faint blue sky, reddening into beauty as the purple-madder shadows deepened over the yellow desert.

Mazenderan is not less celebrated in Persian romance than the region at the foot of Demavend.

The smoke rising out of the crater of Demavend is the breath of Zohak chained in the depths of the mountain.

The highest peaks are situated in the still unexplored district of Talikan, N.W. of Teheran, and thence eastwards to beyond Mount Demavend.