Exploring by foot

The predominant use of modern off-road vehicles and high tech navigation tools in travelling the Sahara have meant that few places are left unexplored in the major desert expanse of the World. By travelling on foot it is still possible to give a trip the inherently unrepeatable dimension of a geographic exploration as it was enjoyed by the mythical explorers of the past century... Read about our 2009 Expedition.
Precious Books
A commented list of books that guided or inspired our travels.
Terramata Archive
A library full of rare and out of print books, thousand of digital images from the deserts of three continents and others out of the beaten track places.
Papers
A travel deserves to be qualified as an expedition only when it is followed by a report or at least some written notes. Here following the list of our reports and papers.
A Commitment
In the next future we will go back to the Sahara, to visit again by foot the places the lazy 4x4 tourist cannot vist, like the granitic upper reaches of the Jebel Uweinat (inshallah) or the minor wadis of the Gilf Kebir, the stony ones not passable by motorcars. We will organize a special dedicated expedition to the polluted and tourists ridden wadis of the Libyan Jebel Uweinat to document with advanced digital imaging methods the rock art sites under the threat of hooliganism.