These paths were, from the foundation of the monastic community until a few years ago, the main axis of communication between the monasteries — the physical network through which people, goods, letters and authority moved across the peninsula. Modern infrastructure has largely replaced them: roads laid over the old routes, and sealed irrigation systems where open water once ran beside them.

The project records four of these routes before the replacement is complete.

Xenophontos Monastery – Karyes, six kilometres, along a path destroyed where a highway was built over the original route to the administrative centre.
Karyes – Pantokratoros Monastery, 7.7 kilometres, passing through the Skete of Kapsala and the Skete of the Prophet Elias.
Vatopediou Monastery – Karakalou Monastery, the northern route, which connected Pantokratoros, Stavronikita and Iveron along its length.
New Skete – Simonos Petra Monastery, 12.5 kilometres, the southern route through several monasteries.

What the recordings are after is the contradiction of the landscape as it is met today by a walker or a pilgrim: a place where the human presence has been continuous for more than a thousand years, and where that presence has been simultaneously protective and destructive. The documentation registers both — what the monastic economy has preserved of the ecosystem, and what recent infrastructure has taken from it.