The only way into the Gobi is on foot or by camel ... the permits and arrange for a caravan to meet us at the edge of the desert. Essential packing list: I did test flights each week before ...

The Gobi isn't the world's largest desert (that's the Sahara) or its driest (the Atacama) or its most dramatically diverse with life (the Namib). Instead, it is Earth's northernmost desert and the ...

This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Gobi, dinosaur fossils ... known to science—in this Mongolian desert. Yet few Mongolians are aware of ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. On this night—the final night—a fog swirled across the desert, as thick and impenetrable as a sandstorm.