Lin and his two teammates, American Charlie Engle and Canadian Ray Zahab, left Saint Louis, Senegal, on November 2, 2006. They crossed Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Libya before finally arriving at Egypt's Red Sea coast on February 20, 2007, becoming the first to complete such a journey across the Sahara.
林義傑與美國查理、加拿大雷伊組成的 3 人團隊，2006 年 11 月 2 日從西非塞內加爾聖路易斯港起跑，沿途經過茅利塔尼亞、馬利、尼日、利比亞，2007 年 2 月 20 日終於抵達埃及紅海旁，完成人類史無前例的橫越撒哈拉沙漠壯舉。