Under the cloudless azure sky of the Gobi Desert, one of the most desolate yet cruelly beautiful wildernesses on earth, Selina Scott watches a caravan of camels pass along the Silk Road, the ancient trading route between Europe and Asia, a timeless, almost Biblical scene unchanged in a millennium.
It is sunset in this great dry ocean of stone and rock, a time when the desert glows like liquid copper. The former TV presenter – tall, slim, fresh-faced and full of energy – has travelled 8,000 miles to Mongolia to meet the nomadic families who herd the yak, cashmere goats and camels that supply her clothing company, Naturally Selina Scott, with the finest natural fibres on the planet. “Coming to this wildly beautiful place is one of the most incredible…