Toubkal Imlil

... on a 5 hour journey from the desolate anti Atlas Mountains, over the spectacular Tizi-n-Tichka Pass (2260m) and on to the scenic Toubkal National Park. Just out of the market village of Asni, we stopped into the restored Kasbah Tamandout, owned by Sir ...

We began our trip to climb up Jbel Toubkal, northern Africa´s highest peak at 4156 meters, with a taxi ride from Marrakech which took us up through the beginning of the High Atlas ranges to a town called Imlil. Imlil´s elevation is approximately 2000 ...

J ai decide de faire un 4167m. Ce sommet est tres facile a monter, il suffit de marcher. De marcher dans la neige... Et oui meme au maroc on peut avoir de la neige. J avais 50 cm de neige et des congeneres de plus de 2m d epaisseur. C est assez ...

... that is the main means of transport.  A few of us set off for the 20 min walk up the hill to the Kasbah du toubkal, a former holiday house of the local ruler that has since been renovated by a UK company.   We climbed all the way to the top ...

... on the bench outside the hut, munching happily away, I observed the numerous people already up and preparing for their hike up Toubkal. The amount of people who had been coming up one night from Imlil, a journey of more than 1400m ascent over six hours ...

Tallest mountain in West Africa.  Probably the highlight of Morocco for me.  I'm not sure of the mountain's height or how far I hiked because I didn't really care.  I was just ready to get out of the city.  My companions, Brian and ...

... travellers and hikers from Paris who had come to this country for the same reason I was there, to hike 4167meter Jebel Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak. The three of us had a few days to explore the region, so Mohamed suggested that perhaps we would ...

... of the second day! There are lots of other treks to do in the area as well, if you have time don't just confine yourself to Toubkal! We were dogged most of the way up by 3 German guys with a flag ("a flag?!"  "yes, a flag."). Not the German flag, ...

My two weeks in Morocco were drawing to a end and I only had one day until the AUMC descended from the Toubkal refuge back down to Imlil. The day before we had been up Jbel Toubkal, but now I was looking for more of a challenge- somewhere away from the ...

... food. More tagine for dinner, surprise surprise! No couscous this time though. In the morning, some of us hiked partway up Toubkal. Beautiful fresh air. Nice and cool, even though it was so close to Marrakech. I adore mountains. I wish I had ...

We journey into the Atlas Mountains in the shadow of snow capped Mount Toubkal (tallest mountain in the Atlas) to a village called Imlil with out guide Hussein.  About 500 people comprised the 54 families that lived in the village.  Apparently ...

What was I thinking? This requires being in shape man....

... significantly higher in sky. It was going to be a hot day. We were ready to depart on our two day quest, The Toubkal Refuge to Imlil: The Hard Way. A 24km trek beginning with an 800m ascent to a 3700m pass that would look back on Toubkal before ...