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Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes : A Walk in the Pyrenees
Mick Webb, Simon Calder
Virgin Publishing
February 2005
272 pages
ISBN: 0753509024
Paperback
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High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings
of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless
you are searching for the time of your life. This is the
roof of a mountain range that stretches from the Atlantic
to the Mediterranean coasts, and provides some of hte most
breathtakingly beautiful landscape to be found in Europe.
It is also the place for hikers to get soaked, roasted, or
scared out of their wits - not by the endangered brown
bear, but by rights-of-way such as the precipitous Chemin
de la Mature, hacked out of a cliff by 18th-century
convicts and still used in the 21st-century to punish
anyone fearful of heights, such as TV presenter Simon
Calder. Luckily, his friend and walking companion Mick
Webb has a complementary range of phobias, such as being
confined with 54 hikers, and their socks, in a refuge two
miles above sea level.
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