The
Gilf Kebir is split into two halves by the 'Gap', thus named by
Clayton, who only noticed the lower gap in the western cliffs in 1931. Subsequently
Penderel discovered from the air that the Gap continued in a broad valley, the southernmost tongue of the
Great Sand Sea. Where the valley reaches the western cliffs at it's southern end, a narrow wadi descends to the plains below. This is the
Aqaba, a driveable pass first tackled by
Almásy in 1933.
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