Who are Toubkal Mountain Guides?
ToubalMountainGuides is a trading name of Wilderplaces Adventure Tours NI Ltd.
TMG was set up to focus exclusively on trips & ascents in the Toubkal area, whereas our other main Moroccan website NomadicMorocco.Com focuses on all our other High Atlas trips and general trekking side of things. 

Who will be our guide?
Most of us 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 it is, our trip quality is consistently high. Our main guides are viewable on this link (will open in a new tab/window).

In addition to these guides, we have a number of other highly experienced guides who partner with us as required - some of whom run their own outdoor adventure companies such as RedRockInternational.Com & Kasbah-Tifawt.Com  

Are you insured?
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. In addition we require all our clients to arrange their own medical / travel / repatriation insurance in advance of the trip. We can recommend VentureGuard to cover all your travel insurance needs.

Do you have any sort of "mission statement" or what your operating ethos is?
Yes - we strive to offer high quality Toubkal ascents (particularly winter/technical) 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. In fact 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!

We aim to provide a truly personalised service from the moment you contact us. Your safety is of paramount concern to us. We work on a very low client: guide ratio that most other companies offering Toubkal would simply find uneconomical - e.g. our winter trips have a max ratio 6:1 and sometimes even lower depending on the route in question. In addition small groups work better together, are more personal and provide the flexibility (particularly in winter) that ascents of a 4000m peak often require.

Our trip itineraries have been carefully designed to ensure that you have a great mountain trip experience and do not feel you are "following the crowd". No other company offers such a wide variety of winter itineraries that we do - e.g. we are the only company (that we know of!), that offers commercial winter trips accessing Toubkal from the south side (our Ifni itinerary).

There are 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 with guides that are 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 others.
  
• We will be totally honest with you.
  
• We try to run the most imaginative itineraries and definitely do not "follow the crowd"!
  
• 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! Our normal maximum group size (6) is often other companies minimum number! 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!