This series of images was commissioned on assignment for The New York Times Travel in November 2019. Due to the COVID pandemic which halted international travel, the story was never published in its entirety.
One image was published for the 52 Places Section in 2022.
Sunrise at Wadi Sahu, along the third part of the Sinai Trail, a hiking trail that spans 550kms along Sinai, Egypt, November 15, 2019.
A traditional tent made by the women of a village in Wadi Sahu, along the third part of the Sinai Trail, hangs on a tree. The tent is handmade from the wool of sheep and goat and takes years to create. It is used sparingly, and during formal gatherings. Sinai, Egypt, November 14, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A goat roams around the village in Wadi Sahu, Sinai Egypt. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail And old truck that's said to be from the Israeli occupation of Sinai is used as part of a makeshift majless, or gathering spot for villagers around a tree in the center of a village in Wadi Sahu, Sinai, Egypt. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Children play inside an old truck that is said to be from the Israeli occupation of Sinai in Wadi Sahu, Sinai, Egypt. November 15, 2019,
Egypt's Hiking Trail Umm Yasser, the first female bedouin guide on the Sinai Trail in her home in Wadi Sahu, Sinai, Egypt, November 15. 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Sinai trail guide Julie Paterson and hiker Jacobus Nederfelt at the summit of a 200 meter ascent through a mountain pass. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Bedouin guide Nada and hikers rest at the summit of a 200 meter ascent in a mountain pass on the Sinai Trail, Sinai, Egypt, November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A camel is tied in order to prepare for a hike after a lunch stop on the Sinai Trail. Camels accompany hikers in places where support trucks cannot reach because of difficult terrain in order to carry supplies for the hikers, November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Hikers stop with Ben Hoffler, one of the co-founders of the Sinai Trail, at a mountain pass to visit the grave of Robin Paul Ellis who died January 25, 1955 in Sinai, Egypt. It is said Ellis was a young boy who died of natural causes in Sinai. Hikers then continue to the campsite at the end of a 14km hike day. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A view of the mountain in section 14 along the third part of the Sinai Trail, Sinai, Egypt, November 15. 2019. Some areas in Sinai are still named the way the British named them during the occupation of Egypt. The Sinai Trail is a 550km trail that crosses through Sinai and takes roughly 52 days to complete. The third part of the trail is being open to hikers for the first time.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Bedouin guide Youssef Barakat helps Dutch hiker Jacobus Nederpelt wash his hair at the campsite in section 14, along the third part of the Sinai Trail, Sinai Egypt. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A bedouin makes tea and coffee over a campfire at the campsite in section 14 along the Sinai Trail, Sinai Egypt. November 15, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A camel led by a Mohamad a bedouin, carries hikers' belongings through a wadi along the Sinai Trail, Sinai, Egypt. November 16, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail The ghost mining town of Umm Bojma, along the third part of the Sinai Trail, Sinai Egypt. November 16, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail The ghost mining town of Umm Bojma, along the third part of the Sinai Trail, Sinai Egypt. November 16, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A bedouin man and his son walk through the ghost mining town of Umm Bojma atop a plateau looking out over Sinai, the Gulf of Suez and mainland Egypt. November 16, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail The Red Sea Mountains outside of Hurghada, Egypt. November 18, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Bedouin guide Mohammed Muteer, trail co-founder Ben Hoffler and Egyptian guide Mostafa Abu Alfadl rest at the top of a mountain pass near Jabal Abu Elhassan on the Red Sea Mountain Trail. The trail will open to the hikers publically for the first time in December 2019 and will stretch across mountain messifs and wadis in the Red Sea Mountain range. November 18, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Bedouin guide Mohammed Muteer surrounded by butterflies near a puddle of underground water in Wadi Abu Elhassan along the Red Sea Mountain Trail, November 18, 2019. Muteer, is an experienced tracker and is from the Khoshman clan of the Ma'aza tribe from the Red Sea Mountains.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Mohammed Muteer a bedouin guide from the Red Sea Mountain Trail stands atop a rock in between two granite mountains looking out to pooled water below, November 18, 2019. Muteer, an experienced tracker, explained the water pooled from rains about a month before.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Mohammed Muteer a bedouin guide from the Red Sea Mountain Trail, climbs below in to a granite mountain crevasse with pooled fresh rain water. November 18, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Trail co-founder Ben Hoffler starts a fire to warm in Wadi Abo Alhassan while bedouin guide Mohammed Muteer prepares tea in between pink and green granite mountains, November 18, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Mohammed Muteer and Mostafa Abo Alfadl drink pooled fresh water in the granite mountain path in Wadi Abo Elhassan the most remote wadi and mountain messif along The Red Sea Mountain Trail. The Red Sea Mountain trail, the sister trail to the 550km Sinai Trail, is set to open to hikers in December 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail Trail co-founder Ben Hoffler and guide Mostafa Abo Alfadl walk through Wadi Abo Elhassan along the Red Sea Mountain Trail, November 18, 2019. The Red Sea Mountain Trail is set to open to hikers in December 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail A colorful shrub in Wadi Abo Elhassan, the most remote wadi and mountin messif range along the Red Sea Mountain Trail, November 18, 2019.
Egypt's Hiking Trail An acacia tree in the plains of the Red Sea Mountains outside of Hurghada, Egypt along the Red Sea Mountain Trail. Acacia trees grow in abundance throughout Sinai and mainland Egypt and dot the landscape throughout the Red Sea Mountain Trail. November 20, 2019.