A team of hikers set off on a 50-day trek from Oman on December 10, 2015 that will take them across the Empty Quarter – the world’s largest sand desert in the southern Arabian Peninsula.
Led by British explorer Mark Evans, the three-man team will retrace the 1,300-kilometre route taken by a British civil servant, Bertram Thomas, in 1930, from Salalah in southern Oman, through Saudi Arabia, to Doha in Qatar.
Despite the threat of warring tribes and a constant struggle to find enough water, Thomas completed the journey in 57 days.
Mr. Evans, 54, and his two Omani colleagues will be accompanied by two vehicles to carry water and provisions, along with a train of four camels that will be stopping at the same watering holes Thomas used 85 years ago to top up their supplies.
“It will be a trip that has its difficulties. We’re walking across one of the least inhabited places on earth,” Mr Evans said as he prepared to set off.
But he said the team would count on the same kind of hospitality that Thomas experienced on the original journey. “The openness and the warmth and the friendship is the same as it was 85 years ago,” Mr. Evans said.
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