AMMAN –– Three French tourists fell to their deaths on Saturday while mountain climbing in Wadi Rum, according to the Civil Defence Department (CDD). A 32-year-old man and two women, aged 35 and 40, ...

A year after my first climbing trip to Jordan, this spring I returned to the magical Wadi Rum desert, also known as "The Valley of the Moon". This time I travelled with Manrico Dell'Agnola (CAAI).

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Boulder’s Henna Taylor, whose “The Valley of the Moon” will be featured at the Reel Rock traveling festival of climbing movies next week at the Oriental ...

It traces the stunning, extraterrestrial landscape featured in films like Star Wars and Dune, while helping to preserve traditional Bedouin culture. My Bedouin guide Abdallah led the way up and into ...

Jordan’s southern border is a land of sweeping valleys, sandstone hills and imposing mountains crowned by peaks overlooking vast, remote deserts. Not so long ago, much of this region was actually ...