Who are Toubkal Mountain Guides?
TMG is a trading name of Wilderplaces Adventure Tours NI Ltd (a company registered in Northern Ireland) with an office in southern Morocco where our principal director / guide, Des Clark lives. Our other main Moroccan website is NomadicMorocco.Com which focuses on all our other High Atlas trips and general trekking side of things. TMG was set up to focus exclusively on Toubkal area trips and ascents.

Often we're not just "paperless" but "office-less" as well(!) as we spend a good deal of time out of "civilisation" and up in the mountains working on trips and also developing some health and educational projects in remote Berber mountain villages. So please bear with us as we whilst we do reply to all our emails, it isn't always by return - no matter what satellite telephone or internet communications technology is around!

Who will be our guide?
In addition to Des (an Irishman who has 20 years of mountain experience in the Scottish winters, Alps, Pyrenees, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Iceland and who is a qualified IML), we have a number of highly experienced European / American guides who partner with us. Some of them work as "free-lance" guides such as Alex Heude, whilst others have their own small companies like ours - such as RedRockInternational.Com; Kasbah-Tifawt.Com & HighCountry.Co.Uk  Most of them live in Morocco, whilst others may as well do for the amount of time they spend over here! We will of course tell you before your trip starts who your guide will be. Whoever your guide is, our trip quality is consistently high.

Are you insured and how are clients legally protected?
Absolutely! Wilderplaces Adventure Tours (NI) Ltd (and all their trading names) are insured in the UK with Royal Sun Alliance for professional indemnity, public & employers liability. Although we operate in Morocco, the contract between us and our clients is in the name of our registered NI/UK company, Wilderplaces Adventure Tours (NI) Ltd.

Running any internet focused company requires trust on both the clients and company's part. You can totally rely on our honesty. Many of our clients are repeats and / or by word of mouth.

Do you have any sort of "mission statement" or what your operating ethos is?
Yes - we strive to offer high quality Toubkal (winter/technical) ascents and give our clients something different from the bigger, international travel companies.  Sensitivity to the local environment and Berber culture is of the utmost importance to all of us. Compared to the larger travel companies we have a small committed client base - the result of this is that we know most of our clients on an individual level and so can offer a highly personalised service before, during and after a trip. We are a small independent provider and have years of combined experience in leading groups and individuals to some of the most remote and unspoilt areas in this fabulous mountain range.

We try and avoid paperwork as much as possible (a common aspiration we're sure!), and so we are entirely "internet based" in terms of marketing, trip information and so on.

There are quite a few other companies I've come across offering Toubkal winter trips. Why book with you?

• We are some of the most knowledgeable, experienced and qualified western guides (living) in Morocco and try harder than almost anyone to make sure you have the best (winter) Toubkal experience. Having a company that is based here in-country is so much more beneficial to clients we believe, than travelling with a company that may outsource all your summit aspirations out to other companies.
  
• We will be totally honest with you.
  
• We prefer to run small group trips that definitely don't make as much money as some large groups that we see around with other companies! Small groups to us are safer, more flexible and much more enjoyable.
  
• We have great local staff (cook, kitchen staff, muleteers and porters) which is vital in a country like Morocco!
  
• We enjoy what we're doing!