High Atlas Mountains – in 5 photos

Views, villages and traditions between Morocco's highest peaks

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High Atlas Mountains – in 5 photos

Views, villages and traditions between Morocco’s highest peaks

Dear NE-One

In the far north of Africa, where the Sahara desert rolls her dunes between the broad belly of the continent and the western bulge of Europe, there is a range of mountains that stands in her way. Formed when tectonic plates collided, the slopes of the High Atlas stretch for 740km across Morocco, from the Atlantic coast near Agadir all the way to Algeria, creating a barrier for weather systems and giving birth to rivers that nurture fertile valleys and bring sustenance to some of Morocco’s most thirsty lands.