Looking eastward from the peak of the Ras-es Safsaf toward the rocky ridges of the Mt. Sinai range

Two men, one laying on top of a boulder, another about to climb it.
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Photograph taken from the northeastern slopes of Gebel Armaziya, looking east and showing the southeastern mountain mass of Gebel El Sefsafa from right to left in the forefront, the vicinities of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley) and Wadi El Sebaa'iya and Farsh and the whale-shape mountain of Gebel Umm A'lawi in the centre in far horizon from a 6.5km distance and part of the eastern section of the ring dyke of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula, and the southern mountain mass of Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) from centre-left to left and the dark summit of Gebel Meraja in centre-left. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Byzantine monastic structures are scattered across the plateau of Biblical Mount Horeb and Mount Sinai, including ruined buildings (dwellings), hermit cells, prayer niches, rock-paved paths, rock inscriptions and agricultural plots (water dams, reservoirs & cisterns, conduits and retaining walls) (4th-7th centuries CE). Medieval mountain chapels were built on the plateau between 9th and 10th centuries CE, including the chapels of Our Lady of the Storehouse (The Virgin Mary, Oikonimissa or Bursar), prophet Elijah (Grotto of Elias), St. Panteleimon, St. Anne (Banaya or El Madsusa) and St. John, while the chapels of St. Stephen, St. Marina the Virgin, St. Gregory and The Holy Girdle of Virgin Mary (El Sefsafa) were re/built in 18th-19th centuries CE, other than the ruined Byzantine chapels. An estimated population of 100 to 150 Nubian Ibexes dwelled in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula in 1970s CE and still frequently observed on the plateau in late 20th-early 21st centuries CE (wild animals in the vicinity: hyena 'uplands', wolf, fox, leopard 'extirpated', cat fleas, hyrax, hare, hedgehog, Egyptian spiny mouse, bat and feral donkeys). The ring dyke (the ring of fire) is a volcanic mountain chain which encircles the northern half of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula and acts as a natural boundary with the surrounding uplands, where several mountain passes are used as natural gateways. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
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