"According to our local guide, Samir Ahmoudou, to travel anywhere in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, you only need to know three Amazigh words: sow, gow, ich—“eat, sleep, drink.” Hospitality will take care of the rest. Such advice seems simple to the point of unlikely, but the piles of fresh bread and pot of fragrant mint tea in front of us attest to its validity." -Leilani Bruntz
“After over a week of travel, Anne Gilbert Chase works her way up a splitter crack, a warm-up before she and her partners tackle Alam Kuh’s big walls. Most of the Iranians we met were aiming to climb the steep, clean aid lines in the middle of the main wall, but our team was in search of a new free line, which led to less traveled terrain and some questionable rock.”
