I climbed Toubkal summit at 4167m and there was long way down. My guide from GetYourGuide left me unsupervised to climb from the big stone at the top to the summit (the last 200m or so of elevation) and then to return to the refuge, eventhough he saw that I am inexperienced and how much I struggled to climb up. Somewhere in the middle of the way down I did something very silly when I’ve decided to slide down a snowy part on the Toubkal mountain and thanks to other group’s guide @traveler_guidee heroic act I still have all the limbs and no injuries. My thought process was that the guys down there (almost in a flat area) were sliding so I could slide down and probably the level of exhaustion and lack of oxygen due to the altitude led to that stupid slide moment. Also, from nasty comments on Instagram I found out that one should have an ice axe (to be able to stop) and take off crampons (not to break your ankles or legs) when attempting a stupid slide like that.
The video does look much more dramatic and steep as it was in reality due to the wide lens GoPro camera, but yes somewhere in the middle of the video you can see that one of the crampons came off and luckily I manage to avoid the rocks on the right side. I guess I would have stopped somewhere eventually as I was already gradually losing speed, but I’ll admin – it was a bit scary.
Full video of going up to Toubkal summit.
Going down through snow from Toubkal mountain summit.