Egypt's Guinness record breaker Hesham Nessim is seeking to set another record on April 25 in Egypt, by climbing Mount el-Geneina in Sinai, the country's highest peak at 1,800m, as he announced at a press conference in Cairo. Last year, Nessim broke two records. Firstly, he set a new world record, driving solo across an inhospitable stretch of the Western Desert, called the Great Sand Sea, then north towards Siwa Oasis in only five hours and 33 minutes. He then crossed the Western Desert using one car, from Siwa Oasis in the north to Abu Simbel in the south in only 13 hours and 45 minutes. The distance by road is about 2,500km, but he drove as the crow flies, travelling around 1,300km, on the day that the Guinness Book of World Records celebrated Global Day last October. It was one of the world's greatest records and the first time for an Arab and Egyptian, to set two records in the same year. Nessim's new record will coincide with Sinai Day on April 25, but Guinness representatives refuse to follow him up Mount el-Geneina, as it's very dangerous, but they will register this new record if he makes it to the top. He says that the journey will begin in the Suez Gulf and el-Agouza mountains. Then he will pass Mount St. Catherine and the Gulf of Al-Aqba. He has already done a 12-hour recce, during which he discovered several monuments and Bedouin still living there. No insurance company will insure Nessim, as his ascent is too risky.
