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I'm looking for mountaineering contacts in Morocco. I've contacted the CAF and gotten no response. Emailed guides in Casablanca and Marrakech, and gotten no response. I have a significant project I'm working on and would appreciate any and all references to mountaineers in the High Atlas.

Please email at martha@marthaperantoni.com

Thanks!
Martha

Here are a couple of links that might help

http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... ubkal.html

http://www.nomadicmorocco.blogspot.com

M

Have you tried asking over on UKClimbing.com? A lot of people there go to or have been to Morocco. Ask on the Expeditions forum.

I went up Toubkal in deep snow in March 1997, but I'm sure things have changed a bit since then. It used to get ridiculously crowded with Euro ski-tourers in late winter / spring. Looks a good place for long ridgeline scrambles, though not in summer!

I seem to remember a Brit named Hamish Brown did a guide years ago. Google?

In the early 1990s to early 2000s a group of older Brit climbers did a lot of new routes there, long rock routes in the Todra Gorge and other places. I think a guide came out several years ago, but for a long time people kept it to themselves, so they could grab all the great lines. It's meant to be some of the best multi-pitch trad in the world. Joe Brown, Chris Bonington and others were all in the group, though they stopped a few years ago.


D

Cy, Damien,

This is a superb help! Thank you!

M

Went up Toubkal last year. Just PM me about specific questions. Didn't use any operator... .