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Morocco’s First Climbing Festival

One of the things we love most about being climbers is the community we share. It’s a global, multi-generational community, knitted together by a common passion. Whether we speak English, Arabic, French, Dutch, Spanish, or German; we share a language through our love of being outside in nature. On May 3-5, 2019, Climb Morocco and Imik’Simik […]

Mount Toubkal and Imlil Access Changes

Since the tragic events this past December of the murder of two women in the Toubkal region, we have been wanting to take some time to respond. First of all, in hearing the news, we were heartbroken not only for the women and their families’, but also for the many people in and around Imlil […]

New Climbing Area in Development

As a team at Climb Morocco, we spend a lot of time searching the country for new climbing locations. We’ve used Google Earth to scour the landscape for rock formations. Occasionally we hike to a small cliff that we noticed from a highway, only to find some old pitons left by climbers sometime in the […]
View of Lower Eagle

April Climbing in Jbel Kest

An open weekend in April led us (TJ & Candice) to explore a new area that matched our preferred climbing style; adventurous trad routes. We left Marrakech late in the morning on a Friday and arrived to the Kasbah Tizourgane about 4.5 hours later. Since we didn’t have much time, the goal for this trip […]

Louis Parkinson’s Quest For New Moroccan Lines

We’re excited that the huge bouldering area at Oukaimeden has been getting a lot more attention lately with many climbers from around the world visiting, climbing, and see all it has to offer. It truly is an amazing place and a world-class bouldering destination that is relatively unknown until more recently. Thousands of boulders, beautiful […]

Oukaimeden Bouldering Digital Guidebook App

We’ve just finished and released the Oukaimeden Bouldering digital, GPS enabled guidebook in partnership with Imiksimik Bouldering and Rakkup Guides. Hundreds of boulder problems have been included with pictures, descriptions, gradings, and offline turn by turn GPS navigation to navigate you on the trails, to the climbs without getting lost. http://www.rakkup.com/guidebooks/oukaimeden-bouldering/ This place has the […]

Pocket Guide – Tafraout

If you have spent any time with me in the last couple of years, you know that climbing in Tafraout in exotic Morocco is pretty much my favorite thing to do in the whole wide world! This is one of the world’s best kept multi-pitch trad climbing secrets! It’s like calling ahead to your favorite, […]

Kayaking and Base Jumping in Morocco

Base jumping and kayaking is quite different than rock climbing and what Climb Morocco focuses on and specializes in, but we ran across these two videos of some groups having some great adventures at various locations around the country and thought we share them. Hopefully these will inspire you towards adventure and seeing and experiencing […]

We Now Offer Multi-pitch Climbing!

That’s right folks. Climb Morocco now has two instructors that are able to take you multi pitch rock climbing in some of Morocco’s most beautiful regions! After multiple requests, we now offer multi pitch climbing trips to Tafraoute/Jebel El Kest and Todra Gorge. Want to trad climb on beautiful Quartzite? We got it. Excited to […]