The main objective of this trip is to climb five Moroccan ultrapeaks. This trip worked well in combination with a Iberian Peninsula trip. The easiest and most reasonable flights were from Madrid. We took one of them and arrived at Marrakech airport in the afternoon. After a few hours of driving that evening, we slept…
Country: Marrakesh-Safi
Morocco – Marrakesh-Safi
Morocco
We did a lot of travelling between the mountains by car. We started our journey in Marrakesh, then drove towards the Atlas Mountains towards the Atlantic Ocean, then along the entire length of the High Atlas Mountains towards Algeria, and then north towards the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, we finished our journey in Casablanca. As a…
Jebel Toubkal
The world’s 36th most prominent mountain is Morocco’s highest mountain, the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, and the nearest higher mountain is more than 2,078 kilometres away. There’s definitely more than one reason to climb it. A guide is compulsory, but it is not very clear why it is needed. Everywhere there are wide,…
Tinmal Mosque
We’re on our way down from Jebel Igdet, our first trip ultrapeak, and it might not even be lunchtime. Jebel Toubkal is not too far away, so we have spare time. Said offers us a tour of one of Morocco’s older and more important mosques. It is not operating as a mosque at the moment,…
Jebel Igdet
The westernmost ultra-peak of the Atlas Mountains. There are certainly enough reasons to climb it. We get up early in the morning and drive to the village of Arg. We leave the car there, quickly prepare, and start the walk. For a couple of kilometres, we follow a trail trod by locals and mules. On…