This mountain is located as far as 1,500 miles south of Algiers, the Algerian capital. Her region is mostly a large rocky desert with an average altitude of over 900 meters above sea level. Highest peak, Mount Tahath, has an elevation of 2,908 m. Assekrem is a famous tourist spot and is often visited by tourists, where Charles de Foucauld built a hermitage in 1911 from the mountains nearest major town is Tamanrasset, which was built on a dry valley or Wadi.