Reaching El Arish, home of most of the men who rehearsed their plan in the desert, isn't easy. All roads connecting south Sinai to the north are considered "security roads" and off-limits to visitors.

South Sinai's rugged mountainous landscape holds ... are actually available for people in these marginalised desert regions and for people that live in the desert. What else is there to do ...

Ria was on a mission to run 550km across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. She’d already completed hundreds of kilometres, endured testing desert elements and overcome countless mental hurdles when her ...

The mountain we had climbed is the conventional location for Mount Sinai deep in the south-central part of Egypt ... In the unforgiving desert light of day, what we did not see was perplexing.