Gilf Kebir
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Gilf Kebir is a plateau in the New Valley Governorate of the remote southwest corner of Egypt, and southeast Libya. Its name translates as "the Great Barrier". This 7,770 km2 sandstone plateau, roughl
View from the top of Gilf Kebir overlooking Wadi Sura
Ancient petroglyphs of a temperate era's giraffe, ostrich, and long-horned cow being herded
The Aqaba Pass
László Almásy
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László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert explorer, aviator, Scout-leader, and sportsman.
Gilf Kebir
…site, a cave discovered by Shaw & party in 1936. Wadi Sura in the southwestern Gilf Kebir: the "Cave of Swimmers", discovered by the Hungarian Count László Almásy (The English Patient), plus many other paintings nearby. In January 2003, Zerzura Expeditions and Jacopo Foggini independently discovered a major new…
Almásy, c. 1945
Almásy’s commemorative plaque in Hungarian at Bernstein Castle
Ladislaus Almásy memorial plaque at Bernstein Castle
Bust of Almásy at the Hungarian Geographical Museum in Érd