Mountain challenges like the Three Peaks Egypt Challenge are popular in many parts of the world, from Europe to Asia, Africa and beyond. They have the potential to boost tourism and bring benefits to hikers and the communities who live around the route. The Three Peaks Egypt Challenge aims to showcase the beauty of the Sinai and to boost hiking tourism, creating opportunities for more people to experience the country’s outdoors whilst creating a sustainable economy that benefits St Katherine’s Bedouin community. Our aim is to grow responsible, ethical mountain tourism from the grassroots up.

THREE PEAKS EGYPT CHALLENGE: GOALS

• To create a world class mountain trail showcasing the beauty of Egypt & the Sinai, boosting safe, responsible participation in Egypt’s wilderness.
• To pull tourism away from the Sinai’s coastal resorts to its mountain interior, creating a sustainable, low-impact economy based on adventure tourism that supports marginalised Bedouin communities.
• To create a challenge with a broad appeal, upon which inspirational and transformational personal journeys can be made in the great outdoors.
• To support the preservation of traditional Bedouin knowledge and skills, through creating an economy in which they are the main assets.
• To challenge negative perceptions about the Sinai and its Bedouin communities through real, cross cultural contact in the mountains.