Contents

Dedication

Map of route

Map 1: Taza to Col du Zad

Prologue

Map 2: Col du Zad to Zaouia Ahancal

Acknowledgments

Map 3: Zaouia Ahancal to Telouet

Map 4: Telouet to Ijoukak (Toubkal Massif)

Map 5: Imlil to Tamri

1 The Learning Curve

2 Journey to Taza

3 Discovering the Middle Atlas

4 Across Melwiya

5 The Lhasa of Morocco

6 To La Vallée Héreaux

7 Rounding Rhat

8 Tessaout to Telouet

9 Mostly Zat

10 High Passes, Formidable River

11 Topping Toubkal

12 Westward Ho!

13 Up the Nfis

14 Guenfis Meadow on Tichka Plateau

15 The ‘Ridge of a Hundred Peaks’

16 Slings and Arrows

17 Down to the Sea

Appendix I: Summary

Appendix II: Atlas Exploration

Appendix III: Equipment

Appendix IV: Glossary

Bibliography

Quotation Acknowledgments