The Jbel Toubkal or Djebel Toubkal , also called massive of Toubkal , is the culminating point of the High Atlas as of North Africa with 4167 Mr. It is located at 63 km in the south of Marrakech, in the province of Alhaouz, inside the national park which bears its name.

First rise

At the XIXème century the interior of Morocco was still one will terra incognita for Europeans and for a long time the Jbel Ayachi (3747 m) passed for the highest top of the High Atlas. In fact, Toubkal was not climbed officially for the first time on June 12th, 1923 by the marquis de Segonzac accompanied by Vincent Berger and Hubert Dolbeau. The cairns that they found at the top had been built by the Berbères of the surroundings for which Toubkal are a holy place dedicated to Sidi Chamarouch.

Tourism

The rise of the roof of North Africa attracts a great number of followers of the trekking. This rise all the more attracts the crowd which it does not introduce of great technical difficulties and which the assistance of the muleteers and their mules avoids too great physical efforts. In addition altitude not exceeding that hardly 4000 meters the acute evil of the mountains poses few problems. The summer is the most favourable season because snow and the firns are absent but short storms and violent ones can occur. The normal way of Southern Ikhibi is attended. Top a broad panorama is offered to the glance rewarding the furnished efforts. One dominates the vast wide ones of the Atlas and the great South with to 50 km with the SE the Jbel Sirwa and 150 km with it vast croup of the Jbel Mgoun. The tourist wave modified the life of the Berber mountain dwellers living in the vicinity. Many inhabitants work from now on in tourism: muleteers, guides, gîteurs, cooks, conveyers. The village of Imlil, last village accessible by the road and located at only two days of walk of Toubkal, is true a " Chamonix marocain".

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