Berbers in the High Atlas mountains - in pictures
The foothills of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco are home to several Berber villages. Reuters photographer Youssef Boudlal made the 10-hour drive from Casablanca to get to the mountain range and took another five hours to hike to the villages
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Berber men walk through the valley of Ait Sghir of the Agoudal region in the High Atlas region of Morocco. There are 16 houses built into the mountain at a height of 1,780 metres
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Children have to walk for five hours to get to the nearest school in Tilmi
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Ali and his mother in their front room. They have no electricity or running water
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Bari Moumouch, a 20-year-old Berber mother, carries her newborn child on her back
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Women weave traditional carpets. Inhabitants also make their living by farming, baking bread, herding cattle
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Women wash a child. It takes almost four hours for villagers to bring in water on mules
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A mother waits as her son searches for a mobile phone network signal
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A family warm themselves around a fire in their home in Tilmi village
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A woman mourns for her donkey after discovering it had died of ill health
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Men return home after transporting food and goods on mules between villages
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Women hold their babies as they keep warm by the fireside
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A boy warms his feet by a fire
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Children watch TV in their house in Tilmi village
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According to the UN, extreme weather fluctuations and erosion that causes flooding and landslides have led to a drop in agricultural productivity in the area
