The Italian Expedition composed of Ardito Desio, conte Leonardo Bonzi, Gaetano Polvara, cav. Vittorio Ponti, and Paolo Righini which set out by airplane on July 26th, 1933. to explore the mountains west of Isfahan has returned after having accomplished a vast amount of work but no account of their accomplishments has yet appeared. They were to explore the ranges on the Persian-Iraq border both from the air and on foot and had planned to make a number of climbs.