The Red Sea Mountain Trail is a 170km, 14 day hiking circuit in the northern parts of Egypt's Eastern Desert. Traversing the vast, sweeping wilderness between the River Nile and the Red Sea it stands outside the modern town of Hurghada and takes hikers on a challenging journey over the highest peaks in mainland Egypt. It was developed over five years by Bedouin of the Khushmaan - one clan of a bigger tribe known as the Maaza - and opened to the world in 2019. Tourism was not new in this part of Egypt; it had existed before the Red Sea Mountain Trail was created but mostly a mass market, package kind of tourism focusing on hotels and beaches on the Red Sea. The majestic mountain wilderness further inland was little more than a backdrop and the Bedouin remained sidelined in the industry, taking mostly low paid service roles in purpose-built tourism camps framed as traditional Bedouin villages to which quad bike tours would be run by outside operators. The Red Sea Mountain Trail was created to go beyond this kind of tourism, in the belief things could be better. It sets out to give a way into one of the great wildernesses of the world; one that still remains almost entirely off the adventure tourism map and virtually unseen by outsiders. It seeks to create a kind of tourism in which the Bedouin are legitimate industry leaders and a space in which the great depth and beauty of their age old Arab culture can be better communicated and understood. The Red Sea Mountain Trail has been hiked by people from all around the world and is one of Egypt's leading community tourism initiatives. It works towards the same goals as the Sinai Trail and an organisation headed by the Bedouin Sheikh of the Khushmaan oversees its operations today.