Product Description

"The Atlas Mountains of Morocco" offer an incredible variety of scenery, climate and terrain, where the Berbersi way of life has changed little in a thousand years. There are also opportunities to walk and climb throughout the year, making it a particularly desirable destination for the outdoor enthusiast. This new edition, now fully updated, provides you with all the information to help make your trip a successful one. The guide includes: a useful introduction providing all the practical advice you will require as a visitor to Morocco; detailed descriptions of walks to the three regions of Toubkal, Mgoun Massif and Jebel Sahro; a separate chapter on other areas for walking in Morocco; and a comprehensive appendix outlining useful addresses, bibliography and a glossary and information on the traverses, ski-touring possibilities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172372 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 155 pages

Review
This little book certainly whets the appetite and supplies you with all the basic information to start you off. Karl has specifically targeted walkers with the routes in this book. Ideal for those who fancy something quite different. The Atchison-Jones Walker's Pocket Book 2007

About the Author
Karl Smith has been a keen walker and climber since his childhood, growing up on the fringes of the Lake District. A former trekking guide, Karl has worked in Greece, the Alps, Nepal and Turkey as well as Morocco. He has written several other guides, including The Mountains of Turkey (also published by Cicerone Press). Karl is currently Senior Lecturer in Tourism at Harper Adams University College, Shropshire, with a particular interest in small-scale tourism and adventure tourism. He is married with a daughter, Abigail, and still runs walking tours in his spare time - most recently in the Pindos Mountains, Greece, and on the via ferrata around Lake Garda, Italy.

Customer Reviews

Utter Rubbish
Nothing more than a rehash of any number of trekking books for any part of the World! Local info is not a patch on other more general guidebooks (eg Rough Guides and Lonely Planet). The section tailored to walking is dull, un-inspiring and provides little more than can be gleaned from a good map. Glad I didn't pay full price !

Essential but not always helpful
If you're planning to go trekking in the Atlas mountains without mule or guide (against lonely planet advice!) this book is essential - especially when taking into account that the only maps available are 1:100000 hand-drawn 'Berber maps' with little and incomplete information.

The first part of the book gives general information about the region in relation to trekking which can be found elsewhere. However, it does feature a few routes more than for example the lonely planet.

Having walked for 6 days in the Mgoun region, we found the route descriptions occasionally very brief (4-5 sentences for a 6h walk) and sometimes inaccurate while other days are described in much more detail. With hindsight the short route description make sense, however, if you're there deciding which way to take you would wish for more information. Fortunately you usually meet the odd shepherd on the way or some kids who are friendly and happy to point in the right direction.

The estimated walk durations are definitely on the optimistic side and walks take easily an hour or two longer even if you don't stop much.

Despite the sometimes short descriptions we were glad to have the book and since there are little alternatives, it is a necessary buy if you're trekking on your own. Note that there aren't any maps in the book suitable for walking; Stanford and Amazon offer maps for the region though.