Above is the link to the illustrated Trek Log for the 1992 Trek.
Organiser Mike Wynn MGS Leaders Allan Witton, Adrian Dobson, Simon Duffy, Graham Seel. The illustrated log contains a fully party list.
In July 1992 a party of twenty boys and four staff went on the first MGS Trek to Africa, to Marrakech and the Atlas mountains of Morocco. We flew to Agadir then travelled overland to Marrakech where we spent a day at each end of our 11-day Trek through the High Atlas.
The Route 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 5 remote Berber villages 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 part continued along the valley while the other half made the long traverse of the Iferouane ridge to climb Trek's first 4000m peak.
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 Roubhal hut in the upper Mizane valley. The seven-day approach walk had developed fitness and helped acclimatisation and the ascents of Toubkal (4167 m, 13,672 feet) and Ouanoukrim (4088m) were accomplished with ease, and half the party bivouacked on Toubkal's summit.
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.
Featured Image: The visit to the Koranic School in Marrakech
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