NPR correspondent Brian Mann dreamed for nearly 40 years of climbing in North Africa's highest mountains. This winter, he finally got the chance.

Part of the Atlas Mountain Range, the Moroccan Toubkal is the highest mountain in North Africa at a staggering 4,167 metres, making it visible from the city of Marrakech.

Photo / Getty Images On the way up to North Africa's Atlas mountains, take time to look back down to the valley below and marvel at this feet of civic engineering.

Climb every mountain: Hiking Morocco’s mighty peaks Now that the north African country’s travel ban has finally lifted (as of 7 February), Atlas Mountains local Alice Morrison describes the ...

More than 55,000 homes were destroyed by the earthquake that struck late at night on 8 September 2023, with the epicentre in al-Haouz province in the heart of the Atlas Mountains.

The United Hatzalah emergency medical response organization has opened two medical clinics in hard-hit areas in the remote Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where entire villages were badly damaged in ...

These under-visited Moroccan mountains are like nowhere else on the planet Mule trekking across the other-worldly Atlas range, our writer discovers a destination as unique as it is overlooked ...

The Atlas Mountains are a series of mountain ranges that stretch across northwestern Africa. These ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.

Morocco's deadly earthquake badly damaged one of the most important historical sites in the High Atlas mountains, an earth-and-stone mosque built by a medieval dynasty that conquered North Africa ...

The Atlas Mountains are a fascinating range in north-west Africa, spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. They’re situated south of the main Eurasia and Africa (Nubia) tectonic plate boundary.