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The Atlas Mountains: A Journey Through North Africa's Rugged Backbone

Trace the path of the Atlas Mountains, the vast range that separates the Mediterranean coasts from the Sahara Desert. This ...
NPR

In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost

ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — Boujemaa and Aicha Ounasser are going home to their birthplace in the Atlas Mountains — to see whether anything is left of it. The brother and sister survived the Sept. 8 ...
Observer

In Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, a Chance to Disconnect

Just a short drive from Marrakech, the High Atlas Mountains feel a world away. Unsplash/Getty Images Call it intuition or call it a glitch in the matrix, but we all have those destinations where we ...
Forbes

The Last Photo Of The ‘Barbary Lion’ Was Taken 100 Years Ago — A Biologist Tells Its Story

In 1925, a haunting image of a lonely lion wandering the Atlas mountains was captured. Here’s what makes this image so biologically significant. Exactly a century ago, a military photographer ...
NPR

African sun and a howling blizzard: trekking through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains

HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — When we set off on foot from a tiny mountain town called Imlil, it was still early, the sky purple. The peaks towering above the valley were just visible in the dim ...