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Duration
2 days
Distance
22 km return
Elevation gain
2500 m
Difficulty
Strenuous, altitude
Summit
4167 m
The Roof of North Africa
Jebel Toubkal is the highest mountain in North Africa, reached on a two day trek from the Berber village of Imlil in the High Atlas. The first day climbs the Mizane valley past a small shrine to a refuge at 3200 metres. The summit push starts before dawn up scree and snow to a barren ridge at 4167 metres, with the Atlas rolling away in every direction and the Sahara haze to the south.
Most climbers hire a local mountain guide and a mule from Imlil and stay at the Toubkal refuge before the dawn summit push.
In winter and spring the summit cone holds snow and ice and needs crampons and an axe. Even in summer the altitude bites, ascend slowly.