Last July, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization officially added part of the Ennedi Massif in the Africa nation of Chad to its World Heritage List. While the global ...

A team of top climbers have become the first mountaineers to conquer the rock formations in a remote desert area of Africa. Renowned adventurer Jimmy Chin photographed the team climbing the stone ...

In the northeast of the country, the sandstone Ennedi Massif has been sculpted over time by water and wind erosion into a plateau featuring canyons and valleys that present a spectacular landscape ...

The Aloba Arch, on the Ennedi Plateau in northeastern Chad, is one of the most magnificent rock arches in the world. And with an elevation of 122 metres (400 feet), it is one of the highest, too. But ...

I'M CLINGING TO A ROTTEN AND UNCLIMBED SPIRE OF SANDSTONE 200 FEET ABOVE AFRICA'S ENNEDI PLATEAU, IN CHAD, NEAR THE EASTERN BORDER WITH SUDAN. Below and in every direction sweeps the emptiness of more ...

It contains one of the world's largest concentrations of prehistoric art, yet is barely known to the rest of the world. My eyes lifted up towards a rocky ledge carved into a sandstone cliff in the ...

You might not expect to see crocodiles, baboons or giant mazes made of rock in the middle of the Sahara desert. But the little-explored Ennedi plateau in north-east Chad is home to unique geological ...