Extreme heat, navigation difficulties, absence of help at hand, shifting sand dunes, scarcity of food and water, the ...

the Empty Quarter (Rub’ al Khali). Read More: Saudi Female Swimmer Makes History with Gulf Crossing This monumental journey, which began on December 15 at Umm Hadid, a famed meteorite impact ...

Even so, Rub’ al-Khali was once home to large populations ... It exists in harsh desert environments like wadis, sand dunes, and stony plains, often going weeks without water.

British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so ...

Surrounding the Liwa Oasis in the western part of the emirate is the Al Gharbia region, home to the Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter ... by the Empty Quarter dunes, and both offer a variety of ...