Hisham Nessim, a renowned adventurer, has set a new world record, driving solo across an inhospitable stretch of the Western Desert, called the Great Sand Sea, then up North towards the Siwa oasis in a record five hours and 33 minutes.

After a three-day trip with observers and equipment to the starting point north of El-Gilf El-Kebir area, Nessim began his 700 km journey on March 5 accompanied by navigator Ahmed Barakat and technical assistant Ragab Ghoniem.

The dangerous trek began at 6:45 am with Nessim choosing not to use the four-wheel drive mode of his Toyota FJ Cruiser for the sake of maximum speed on the first leg of his journey.

After facing several obstacles in difficult terrain, bad weather settled in for the last 250 km, reducing his average speed from 140 km/h to 90 km/h.

After having passed the worst of the storm, the journey was completed at 12:18 pm giving Nessim two records: being the first solo driver to complete this trek and being the fastest.

Second adventure
The Egyptian adventurer Hisham Nessim began his preparations for the second adventure in the heart of the Western Desert. Nessim wanted to cross the Western Desert by one car beginning with Siwa Oasis in the north till the city of Abu Simbel in the south. The original distance is 2500 km. and he will try to cross it through a short road at a distance from 1250 to 1350 km on November 10 in line with the celebrations of Guinness World Records of Global Day. According to Guinness World Records, if this attempt succeeded, it would be one of the greatest world achievements in the Records. In addition, it would be the first time for an Arab and Egyptian to be recorded in the Guinness Records twice in the same year.

It is worthwhile to mention that Hisham Nessim ranked first in the field of human challenge, qualifying him to top the main page of the new edition of Guinness World Records which distributes 3 million editions all over the world and is translated into 37 languages. He also ranked three in the general ranking of the Records out of 4000 who have been recorded in the past few years.