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Tibesti

British  
/ tɪˈbɛstɪ /

noun

  1. a mountain range of volcanic origin in NW Chad, in the central Sahara extending for about 480 km (300 miles). Highest peak: Emi Koussi, 3415 m (11 204 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Raised in the Sahara, Rava is a desert expert specializing in Chad, where climbers and scientists come to the Ennedi and Tibesti regions for the nomads, camel herds and rock arches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2015

Our destination is Emi Koussi, the highest mountain in the Sahara, a 3,500-metre-tall active volcano in the vast uninhabited Tibesti massif.

From Nature ● Feb. 15, 2015

Home to the Sahara's highest mountain, the Tibesti range is one of the least explored spots on the planet and could hold clues to the Sahara's wet history.

From Nature ● Feb. 15, 2015

The Tibesti mountain range in northern Chad just inside the border with Libya would make a potential hideout for Gaddafi -- an African Tora-Bora.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2011

Coming from the Tibesti highlands the Bahr-el-Ghazal has a south-westerly trend to Lake Chad.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

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