Toubkal

I took a holiday with friends to climb Mount Toubkal in Morocco. The climb took 3 days, involved hiring a mule accompanied by a 13 year old muleteer, -7'C and 35mph winds at 4,200m above sea level. I would highly recommend this trip. I finished the ...

... good, mostly sunny with occasional cloud cover. As we continued on along the trail, we could see the high mountains (including Jebel Toubkal) in the distance towering above us, worryingly with a large amount of snow on top! After about 3 hours, we reached ...

... ;Jebel Toubkal- chega a 4.167m sendo o pico mais alto do norte da áfrica. Nesta região fica o Parque Nacional Toubkal, um lugar excelente para caminhadas, curtas ou longas. A base para explorar a região é Imlil uma cidade de 1700 habitantes ...

Having decided to climb up Jebel Toubkal I found out that I had already missed the bus and instead squeezed into an old Mercedes taxi with another 7 guys to Imlil the traditional starting point for the trek. But by the time I actually got to the ...

After a good nights rest at Aremd it was time for the beginning of the real trekking. Today was the hike up to the Toubkal refuge at base camp, spending the night there, in communal dormitories! The hike up through the valley took about six hours of ...

... ; The view was stunning and Brendan got a new lease on life as we made our way steeply down the scree slope towards Refuge du Toubkal which would be our home for the night.  Needless to say Brendan did not have any lunch and Michelle only touched the ...

The alarm clock was set at 5 am this morning so that we could start the ascent of Mount Jebel Toubkal in the dark (why not?). My first observation was that the wind at 3100m (at the refuge) could almost tear off a tree. Was there a risk at the top, a ...