Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:45

A Belgian-Moroccan aged 6 is the youngest person to have climbed the Jebel Toubkal

Friday, 07 August 2015

Yannis Oulad is the name of the young Belgian-Moroccan who successfully reached the summit of Jebel Toubkal, the highest mountain of Morocco and North Africa.

He made the impressive feat of climbing the mountain along with his father and brother Zakaria Adam, 9 years old.

And the numbers themselves speak volumes. It took them 18 hours walking, divided into two days to reach the 4167 meters summit of jebel Toubkal known to be the highest mountain of Morocco and North Africa.

What is more, Yannis became the youngest person to have climbed the legendary mountain, according to the newspaper Liberation Morocco.

A performance guided by the father of the two young boys who explains that the climb to the mountain "required the management of various parameters such as wind, cold and especially the lack of oxygen." But the most difficult and most exciting part of the adventure was probably "the nights in tents, in total autonomy and the waking- up at 4am which made their adventure even more exhilarating".

Google+ Google+