An hour before dawn, in a nameless rock pile in the world’s largest hot desert, Djimet Guemona clambered up a narrow gully. The route was hemmed by high walls, where uncountable centuries of ...
Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...