(upbeat music) - My name is Mark Jenkins.

I'm a writer and I've spent the last 40 years climbing around the world.

I was really looking for a place where we could do some unclimbed walls and was looking at Africa.

And I know that there are big rock walls that are kind of unknown.

So I started searching, doing homework and I found these walls here in Southern Sinai.

At the same time I was thinking about who could I do this expedition with?

And probably only in Wyoming could you get on the phone and call three guys and tell them we're leaving in a week, we'll be gone for a month, you need $2,000 cash in your pocket, and thing we're gonna do is completely unclimbed and unexplored.

And I got three Wyoming guys to say yes on the phone immediately.

And within a week we were on a plane to Cairo.

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