The High Atlas

Treks and Climbs on Morocco’s Biggest and Best Mountains

This guide is an inspirational first-hand (and foot) account of the challenges
of Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range. Detailing how treks and climbs can be
completed, it is a mix of the renowned author’s reminiscences and descriptions
of how best to tackle these mountains to find their most rewarding treks and
climbs.
Morocco’s Atlas mountains form an extensive series of ranges across Africa’s
northwest and the High Atlas range contains the highest peaks of all, with
endless tops of over 3000m and some of over 4000m. A few of the really big
hills stand in serene isolation, so isolated that they can have their own
distinct plantlife. Travelling through the valleys is every bit as important
as success on the mountains.

Trekking through the range or reaching the summits are great achievements but
the High Atlas experience is fundamentally enhanced by the people of the
valleys and village life. Berber tribes have lived in the valleys for
thousands of years and local people and culture provide just as many memorable
experiences as reaching the surrounding summits.