“No Friends But the Mountains”: A Climbing Community Rises Up in Iraqi Kurdistan
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“No Friends But the Mountains”: A Climbing Community Rises Up in Iraqi Kurdistan

Maya Silver | May 25, 2026

Over 20 years after his father was killed in Iraq, a climber travels to Kurdistan in northern Iraq to see how the sport serves as a coping mechanism during conflict.

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