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So when the hot sandstorms blow in the lower steppe the scorching heat is carried right up to the foot of the mountains.
Imagine a million square miles of empty desert, an unmapped land patched with treacherous quicksand, a blisteringly hot place lashed by sandstorms.
Then there are night races and blinding sandstorms to struggle through not forgetting the odd throwing ax or javelin that may come your way.
But in January 2002 they still held nearly 1,500, living in harsh conditions of intense heat and affected by sandstorms.
The city had been plunged into a fiery orange fog by the worst sandstorms in living memory.