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An icy glacier in the middle of a hot desert? It seems unlikely. But it’s true. <\/p>\nAn icy glacier in the middle of a hot desert? It seems unlikely. But it’s true. <\/p>\n
In the Zard-Kuh, a 4,200m-high mountain range bordering the western flank of Iran’s vast central deserts, hides one of the Iran’s most unexpected geographical finds. On the edge of the hot desert are a series of sub-tropical glaciers.<\/p>\n
Ian Lloyd Neubauer went to see it for himself. While he was there, he came across the Bakhtiari, a nomadic tribe who camp near the glaciers to escape the stifling summer heat. They spend eight months a year in Khuzestan, a province in the south of Iran, and migrate to the Zard-Kuh at the end of every April to escape summer temperatures that soar to 50 C. They remain here until mid-September, fattening up their livestock on fresh green grass.<\/p>\n
Read all about it in this photo essay by Ian Lloyd Neubauer that was published on the BBC travel site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An icy glacier in the middle of a hot desert? It seems unlikely. But it’s true. 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