Now that 1,000 kilometre journey across the largest sand desert in the world is about to be repeated for the first time. In 1930 one Omani and one British explorer made the first ever recorded crossing of the Rub Al Khali desert. We are the only UK tour operator able to offer you the opportunity to retrace some of the steps of Wilfred Thesiger and Bertram Thomas in the largest sandy. Combining extensive photography - both archive and contemporary - with an authoritative yet highly readable text, this book will be a unique exploration of the region as it was more than eighty years ago, and as it stands today. Accompanied by an equally intrepid Omani team, he embarked on the 1,300km journey on foot and by camel in December 2015, crossing the same stretch of desert in 49 days.Ĭrossing the Empty Quarter is a large format celebration of the journey in all its aspects. Now, some 85 years later leading British explorer, Mark Evans, has taken on the challenge again. Describing the worlds largest uninterrupted sand mass, explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger wrote, It was very still, with the silence which we have driven from. Challenged by the unknown, they walked for nearly 1,000 kilometres from Salalah on the coast of Oman, through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Doha, the capital of Qatar it was to be the first recorded crossing, dashing the hopes of Ibn Philby. The potential hardship was not to deter Bertram Thomas, the intrepid British explorer who set out to travel from south to north in the winter of 1930-31, guided by Omani Sheikh Saleh Bin Kalut al Rashidi al Kathiri. “Arabia’s Empty Quarter constituted the broadest expanse of unexplored territory outside the Antarctic continent.”Īrabia's vast Rub Al Khali desert is one of the world’s most extreme and inhospitable environments, and in 1930 the race was on to become the first European to cross what is the biggest sand desert on earth.
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