Record Max Calderan, 1100 km in the desert

(ANSA) - BOLZANO, FEBRUARY 3 - The extreme Italian desert explorer Max Calderan crossed the so-called 'Empty Quarter' of Saudi Arabia on foot. The Veneto has covered footprints in a total of 1,100 kilometers in 18 days. "It was a historic feat, because a new line was opened in a desert deemed impossible, the last area unexplored on earth. This line that will be added to history and geography books," says Calderan in an audio message sent to ANSA .
The journey will be told in a documentary about one of the unknown angles of the planet. In the past, several celebrity explorers have crossed small parts of the desert with or off-road, but nobody has ever traveled it, alone and on foot. The 'Empty Quarter', the largest sand desert in the world, covers the southernmost part of the Arabian Peninsula.
Unstable dunes, up to 300 meters high and blinding sandstorms made navigation very difficult.