NPR: African sun and a howling blizzard: trekking through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains
African sun and a howling blizzard: trekking through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains
The High Atlas Mountains stretch across central Morocco, forming the highest mountain range in North Africa. Known for their rugged peaks, dramatic valleys, and seasonal snow-covered slopes, the range ...
The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jesús ...
Stretching from the Moroccan coast to Tunisia, the Atlas Mountains form a natural barrier between the Mediterranean world and the vast Sahara Desert. This episode explores the range’s six sub-mountain ...
HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — When we set off on foot from a tiny mountain town called Imlil, it was still early, the sky purple. The peaks towering above the valley were just visible in the dim ...
A fabled boutique hotel in the Atlas mountains makes a stunning base for hikes to spectacular viewpoints Coming up the footpath from Imlil, Hussein and I step aside to let a laden mule go past and I ...
The Conversation: What caused Morocco’s earthquake? A geologist studying the Atlas mountains explains