Luca Vallata reports about a climbing trip to the Hoggar massif in Algeria. With Richard Felderer and Federico Martinelli the trio repeated and established several routes; the standout climb was the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Within the dim anteroom of the hilltop chapel, in the well-thumbed book that the priest had thrust into my hand ...

Luca Vallata making the first ascent of 'Les Hommes Bleus' on Dôme de l'Éléphant, Tesnou, Hoggar, Algeria (Richard Felderer, Federico Martinelli, Luca Vallata 11/2023) Planetmountain.com is a site ...

Le Chant du Hoggar, a fictionalized documentary directed by Pierre Ichac, which takes as its theme the adventurous life of the Tuaregs of yesteryear, the setting being the lesser-known mountains and ...

The Saharan cheetah was filmed in Algeria. Naturalists in Algeria have filmed a Saharan cheetah, a subspecies listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, for the first time in a decade, the ...

EACH EASTER SUNDAY my grandmother used to get me to watch the sun dancing in the sky in joy at the Resurrection, and I would always clearly see it dance. Nowadays I find it harder to see, yet there is ...

Here’s ten of the places we’d like for Nathan Drake and Lara Croft to visit in their future adventures. 8: Tin Hinan and The Hoggar Mountains This mountain plataeu in the central Sahara desert has it ...

Edited film: a blacksmith in the village of Tamanrasset demonstrates the manufacture of a decorative clasp for a leather purse. He creates the lock, the casing, the inner workings, and the key. All of ...

Just imagine you're lost in the desert with 91 men, 280 camels, no water and your guides are lying to you. Home is 1,500km back the way you came, your destination is only 200km in front. This was the ...