Tag Archives: Climbing

Morocco’s First Climbing Festival

Categories: Events

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

Categories: Blog, Planning Your Trip

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 […]
View of Lower Eagle

April Climbing in Jbel Kest

Categories: Blog

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 […]

Heating up in Marrakech, cool off in the mountains

Categories: Blog

The weather has started to really heat up in Marrakech hovering between 25 C and 32 C during the day.  That means that one of the best ways to escape the heat is to get up into the high mountains.  Although a lot of the snow is continuing to melt off of the high peaks, […]

Multi-pitch climbing in the Todra Gorge

Categories: Blog

The Todra Gorge is a near perfect place for a few days of climbing, especially in the Fall, Winter, and Spring.  It is sunny most of the time and you normally just decide whether you want to climb in the shade or in the sun depending on the temperature at the time.  Over the last […]
The Mountain People

The Mountain People

Categories: Blog

At Climb Morocco, we primarily focus on technical rock climbing and aren’t involved in guiding summer or winter mountaineering and alpine climbing. We are often asked about recommendations for those that are interested in doing trekking, alpine, or winter mountaineering in the high atlas mountains. The Mountain People is a professional guiding company that specializes […]

Bouldering in the High Atlas at Oukaimeden

Categories: Blog

There is a history of some bouldering activity primarily with the CAF who have a nice refuge in the nearby town. We’ve taken a number of trips to the area and have already discovered some great lines with countless more to be explored and huge boulders as far as the eye can see. The area […]
Oukaimeden Rock Climbing View

Rock Climbing in the High Atlas

Categories: Blog

Morocco is an amazing country with beauty everywhere but one of the problems we come across with trying to rock climb year round and guide trips year round is the weather. Most of the year, there are great places to climb in in beautiful weather but the summer can sometimes be very hot in the […]

High over Todra

Categories: Blog

An adventurous group from Spain just spent quite a bit of time in the Todra doing some climbing and establishing new slacklines. To our knowledge it is the first ever recorded highline crossed across the Todra Gorge or even in Morocco in general. Check out the trailer of the soon to be released video of […]