Morocco Mountain Guide

What you need to know before hiring a mountain guide in Morocco.

Morocco has a well-organised programme for training official mountain guides.

Would-be guides must pass a demanding three-day selection test before even being accepted on to the training course. They are then given six months’ training at the Centre de Formation aux Metiers de Montagne (CFAMM), just outside Tabant in the Ait Bouguemez Valley, before qualifying. As you would expect, official mountain guides are completely different from city guides. They can be identified by the personalised guide de montagne card which bears their name and photograph as well as by the set of documents they are given upon qualification. 

It’s important that you employ an official mountain guide rather than a faux guide (unofficial guide).first and foremost, their profession is a proper one and they deserve to be taken seriously. They have undertaken a long and rigorous training which calls for respect. A guide who leads a trek into the mountains undertakes a big responsibility for your personal safety.