British endurance explorer completes historic 2,000 km desert expedition across Saudi Arabia
JEDDAH: Rosie Stancer has completed her 2,000 km crossing with camels through the length of the Kingdom — from the southwest to northwest — in 69 days, entirely on foot.
The British polar and endurance explorer chose this route as the setting for her most ambitious expedition to date, leading her all-female team on a full crossing of the Incense Route on foot, covering up to 30 km a day through soaring temperatures, shifting sands and terrain that tested every limit of human endurance.
She started in the far southwest of Najran, a major trading junction, then progressed north. The route crossed two deserts, the Empty Quarter and the Nafud, the Sarawat mountain range, and passed through major cultural hubs and heritage sites that punctuate the western side of the Kingdom, including Hima, Bisha, Medina, Khaybar, AlUla and Tabuk.
The expedition, supported by Ford MYNM, continued through Neom to the coast, where the journey ended by the Red Sea.
