Welcome to GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, a blog about the Sinai. Over the last decade I’ve walked thousands of kilometres with the Bedouin tribes of the Sinai. There was no special reason for doing it; I discovered the Sinai on a weekend out of Cairo and kept coming back to climb its mountains. Every time I got to the top of one mountain I saw more I wanted to climb. Everything got bigger with every journey and as much as mountains I came to love travelling with the Bedouin as something in itself. In 2014 my guidebook SINAI: THE TREKKING GUIDE was published by TRAILBLAZER. With Bedouin leaders of three tribes I co-founded the SINAI TRAIL – Egypt’s first ever long distance hiking trail – in 2014. It was voted the BEST NEW TOURISM PROJECT in the wider world in 2016 and I continued to oversee its development into a 550km trail uniting eight Bedouin tribes in 2018. I also founded the THREE PEAKS EGYPT CHALLENGE. These initatives are about boosting tourism and using it to create a kind of work that can help keep the endangered knowledge, skills and heritage of the Sinai’s Bedouin alive. I am also the founder of the SINAI IS SAFE INITIATIVE. The last decade of my life has been dedicated to trying to give a little bit back to the Sinai of the tremendous amount it has given to me. 

This blog is a collection of short notes on the things I find interesting in the Sinai. Most of it is centred around the Sinai’s beautiful mountains. 

I started the blog several years ago. If I started it today I would do it totally differently. I don’t update it but I have left it online hoping it might help show an alternative, more positive and hopeful side of the Sinai and create a counter-narrative to the scare stories and bad news. Most of all I hope it’ll help people see the Sinai for what I believe it truly is; one of the most beautiful, welcoming lands on earth, home to an ancient Arab culture built on values of honour and hospitality towards strangers. 

I always like to hear from anybody who’s interested in what I’m doing and who wants to travel to the Sinai too. You can find out a bit more about me HERE.