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www.nationalgeographic.com Instagram.comFrom the series “The Zagros Trail” for The New York Times Magazine.
There is a project underway to build a 150-mile-long hiking trail through the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, from the Nineveh Plains to the snow-covered mountains that border Iran.
The route approaches zones recently liberated from ISIS and borderlands where Turkey is fighting an asymmetric war against guerrilla fighters of the P.K.K.
Despite these complications, if all goes well, the tentatively named Zagros Mountain Trail will stitch into a single two-week-long route fragments of walks following old canals and seasonal grazing paths, passing Byzantine temples and Jewish shrines, all while navigating around some seven million unexploded land mines from the Iran-Iraq and Persian Gulf wars.
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