The High Atlas are some of northern Africa's most remote and forbidding territory. For one ethnic group, the Berbers, these mountains have provided an escape from conquest and assimilation by Arabs and earlier invaders. But life remains hard in this desolate area and families often must rely on money sent from urban relatives to survive.
(Text adapted from "Among the Berbers," January 2005, National Geographic magazine)
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Morocco by Camel," March 2000, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
