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Following the discovery of Wadi Rum in Jordan, as a rock climbing and adventure tourism area by Tony Howard and Di Taylor in 1984, nomads was created to enable them to work formally with Jordan's Ministry of Tourism.

Their ensuing explorations and guidebooks made Rum, according to a leading British mountaineer, "one of the world's foremost desert climbing areas" and in the words of Jordan's Director of Tourism, "put Jordan's desert tourism on the map". Tony & Di were accompanied by Al Baker and Mick Shaw on their first visit to Wadi Rum and the team were further supplemented in following years by other climbing friends including French Guides Wilf Colonna, Bernard Domenech and others. The Wadi Rum Bedouin played a major role.

Working closely but informally with a group of similar minded professional climbers, cavers and mountain sports activists from across Europe we have since carried out work for other Tourism Ministries, Travel and Conservation organisations including projects for various TV and publishing companies as well as for H.M. Queen Noor, the Palestinian Authority Bethlehem 2000 Project, and the Oman, Egyptian and Nagaland Tourism Authorities. Recent projects in Jordan were sponsored by USAID and we are currently assisting the Petra National Trust with advice on designated trails in the Petra Archaeological Park. We have also been invited to become Team Members of The Abraham Path Initiative developing a trail "in the footsteps of Abraham" from Turkey to Hebron in Palestine, via Syria and Jordan.

Countries with which we have been involved on a professional basis are Egypt, India (Nagaland), Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Norway, Palestine, Oman and Yemen. Additionally, we have also contributed to guidebook work and publications on Algeria, Ethiopia, Iran and Sudan.

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Tony Howard & Di Taylor in Wadi Auja, Palestine.

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
John Muir

"…I don’t want to settle, I love to roam… I feel free and happy, when we settle down, we grow pale and die.”
Santanta, Kiowa Chief, USA.
Quote collected by Survival International and published in ‘We, the people”.