Mount Sinai

The mountain where Moses is said to have received the commandments, climbed at night so that you are on top for sunrise. This line goes up the camel path — the long way, the one the guides take — and comes back down the Steps of Repentance, which is how it is normally walked. [Route details] Start and finish: St Catherine's Monastery (1,575 m) 7.22 km circuit · climb 658 m [The two ways up] - Camel path (Siket El Bashait), 4.33 km — a graded track, walkable in the dark - Steps of Repentance, 2.89 km — about 3,750 steps cut by monks, steep and direct - The last 750 steps to the summit are shared by both [Good to know] - The terrain model reads 2,234 m at the summit against the 2,285 m on the survey marker; the top is a narrow rock crown and the grid averages it down. The monastery reads true. - Bring a torch and something warm — the summit is cold before dawn even in summer. - A Bedouin guide is required, and the monastery has its own opening hours. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model, not recorded on the ground.