Atlas Mountains climbing
Les Rivieres Pourpres: Climbing in Morocco’s Taghia Gorge
By James Lucas “Merde!” Bego screamed in French. Thunder crashed around her. She fought with the crux move of Les Rivieres Pourpres, a six hundred meter 7b+ (5.12c) on Tajoudad in the Taghia Gorge. A few days earlier, I had met Bego and her partner Pauline over chocolate and tea with a group of…