Adrian Hayes: Footsteps Of Thesiger - 44 Days Across The Arabian Desert

British record-breaking Polar explorer and adventurer Adrian Hayes recounts his 44 day/1000 mile crossing by camel and foot of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert in the trail of legendary 1940s British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger.

Former Gurkha officer and Arabic speaking Hayes first learned of Thesiger when he served a 2 year tour with the Sultan of Oman’s Forces in the 1990s and vowed one day to repeat his first crossing of the desert.

In his powerful story, accompanied by stunning images and film, he speaks of the largely unheralded achievements of Thesiger and his companions’ journeys in the 1940s, the reality of attempting the same journey 65 years later with his own Bedouin team and the changed lives and culture of the Bedouin and peoples of the Arabian Peninsula.