Sand skiing

It is practised in many sandy areas, including Sossusvlei, Namibia and Peru,[1] along with other boardsports such as sandboarding.

[2] An International Sandboarding and Sandski Association (InterSands) was founded in 2014 at St. Gallen, Switzerland.

[3] Henrik May, a German living in Namibia for some 10 years, set a Guinness World Record in speed sand-skiing on 6 June 2010.

[4][5] Competitions over the years have included: In 2018, Fayoum University held a sand skiing event in Fayoum with students from around Egypt joining in on the fun.

[10] Skiing on sand has been reported before 1920 in Germany,[11] [12] in 1927 Sahara,[13] on an Asian expedition[14] and throughout the 1930s in