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 ...
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Why build roads across these mountains?

This video features the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where winding roads pass through rugged valleys, dry mountain slopes, and scattered villages built among the hills. From above, the landscape ...
The Atlas Mountains defy the standard model for mountain structure in which high topography must have deep roots for support, according to a new study from Earth scientists. The Atlas Mountains defy ...
Dec. 26 (UPI) --From a vantage of 440 miles above Earth's surface and painted in infrared, Morocco's Anti-Atlas Mountains, also known as the Lesser Atlas or Little Atlas, look like a geode streaked ...
In Morocco, sand is everywhere: in your clothes, in your teeth, in your ski boots. When the western shore of Morocco first came into view, I saw sunbaked sand stretching long and far. I expected ...
The severity of the earthquake in the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco caused numerous landslides and blocked roads in the mountainous region, and rescuers were trying to reach the affected remote ...
When I was a child, we used to travel to the Atlas Mountains to visit my grandparents’ village, Azgayoud. It was a magical place: the towering peaks, the rugged terrain, and the forests of argan trees ...