The Pyrenees

The Pyrenees lie at the neck of the Iberian peninsula and form the watershed and border between France and Spain. The whole range extends from low, wet and green hills at the Atlantic coast, around Irun - right to the glaciated (well, for the next decade anyway) mountains of the Central Pyrenees - through to the arid Mediterranean coast. In total a distance of around 900km.



There are a number of long distance paths that traverse the whole length of the range, the HRP, GR10 and GR11. Whilst the GR routes are generally well way-marked and well described in many guidebooks, the HRP (also called PHR) is more of a theoretical route, sticking to the highest trekking route possible.

On the whole there is much to interest anyone from the most pedestrian walker to the most mental climber of north-facing alpine routes.

Notes & Reports of Pyrenees Trips
Central Pyrenees