Organiser Mike Wynn MGS Leaders Allan Witton, Adrian Dobson, Eric Cittanova, John Willson, Andy Milne. The illustrated log below contains a full party list.

The Route Given the huge success of the 1992 expedition, it was always my intention to repeat the route for the next generation of trekkers. The route was almost identical, but with a few minor additions. It was an 11-day circuit of the Toubkal area of the High Atlas range, with an ascent of Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak, as a climax. The first three days took us east from Aroumd through the Berber villages of Tamatert, Ouaneskra, Tacheddîrt, Oukaimeden and Agounss to Tiourdiou in the Ourika valley, each day crossing a col from which we made an easy summit ascent. Walking through these villages gave us a fascinating insight into the primitive and traditional existence of these mountain people. We then followed the Tifni river through the Kassaria gorge to Taloutoult in the upper Tinzer basin, from where half the party continued along the valley while the other half made the long traverse of the Iferouane ridge reach the 4000 m summit again, with some continuing over the two summits of Adrar-n-Dern (3853 and 3533 m), making a total ascent for the day of 2120 m (6956 ft).

After a long descent to Amsouzart on the Saharan side of the range and a bivouac at Lac d’Ifni we crossed Tizi n’Ouanoums to camp for three nights by the Toubkal hut in the upper Mizane valley.  The seven-day approach walk had developed fitness and helped acclimatisation and the ascents of Toubkal and Ouanoukrim were accomplished with ease. We returned to Aroumd via a steep scramble over Tizi n’Tadat into the Ouarzane valley for a bivouac at Tamsoult and then over Tizi Mzik. The summits climbed were:Tanamrout (2724 m), Jbel Oukaimeden (3273 m), Jbel Attar (3267 m), Iferouane (4000 m), Toubkal West (4020 m), Toubkal (4167 m), Ouanoukrim (4088 m) and Jbel Tasghimout (2664 m).

Route Outline:  Day 1. Aroumd > Tanamrout  > Ouaneskra >  2. Jbel Oukaimeden > Oukaimeden  3. Jbel Attar > Tiourdiou  4. Taloutoult  5  Iferouane > Adrar-n-Dern >Ouraine 6. Lac d’Ifni  7. Toubkal hut  8. Toubkal West > Toubkal  9. Ouanoukrim  10. Tamsoult  11. Jbel Tasghimout > Aroumd

Below is a slide show of a selection of images from Morocco.

All the images in the slide show are taken from the illustrated log below, where their locations are given. Click on the file name to view it.