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Arabian Desert Skills Challenge

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An epic journey through three different and spectacular desert landscapes (dunes, wadis and jebels) while learning essential desert survival and expedition skills.

Arabian Desert Skills Challenge

Foundations programme

The complete programme to prepare you psychologically, physiologically and nutritionally to succeed on your Challenge.

Arabian Desert Skills Challenge

Travel of all varieties

Hone your skills in a three-stage journey: traverse the desert with Bedouins, swim through canyon-like wadis and hike through mountainous jebels.

Arabian Desert Skills Challenge

Develop proficiency in arid environments

From wildlife, topography, navigation, shadow compasses and solar skills, you’ll learn everything necessary to survive the desert terrain.

Arabian Desert Skills Challenge

A cultural education as much as a technical one.

Experience authentic bedouin camps under the stars to stunning desert hotels.

Arabian Desert Skills Challenge will take place in the UAE and Oman and will involve travelling by camel, foot, SUV and swim-trek.

The Challenge starts at the luxurious Qasr al Sarab hotel in the world-famous Empty Quarter – the greatest continuous sea of sand on Earth. Here you’ll learn the essentials of desert travel, navigation and survival. Then you’ll transfer to Oman to put your skills into practice in a three-stage journey: a desert traverse with Bedouins, a swim-trek through water-filled, canyon-like wadis and finally challenging hikes in the spectacular mountainous jebels. This Challenge will introduce you to a broad range of desert environments set in some of the world's most remote and beautiful scenery.

  • Discover (L1): Learn fundamental skills that enable you to operate in extreme environments
  • Explore (L2): Develop your capability with longer, more demanding and self-sufficient expeditions Pioneer
  • Pioener (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths
  • 1: Ability to hike for a day of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 2: Ability to hike for 4 consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 3: Ability to hike for over one week in consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 1. No experience required
  • 2. Foundational Challenge specific skills required
  • 3. Advanced Challenge specific skills required

Included

  • Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
  • Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):
  1. Vehicle: SUVs, Dune Buggies
  2. All Camping Equipment
  3. All Safety Gear for Activities-
  • Accommodation, Travel & Logistics during the Challenge

Not Included

  • Return flights to start destination
  • Expedition Kit List
  • Personal Insurance

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Arabian Desert Skills Challenge
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“The journey is as much inward as it is outward.”

"At the end of this experience I truly felt as if I had conquered a side of myself that didn’t believe intense physical challenges were something for me."

“It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

Equip yourself for the Arabian Desert Skills Challenge