The Pyrenees are crisscrossed by ever more numerous hikers, lovers of its landscapes, peaks and natural beauties. One would almost forget that these mountains have a unique personality, shaped by geology, climatology, the borough hazards and the history of men. This Pyrenean singularity, the authors wanted to share it through twenty hikes that tell unusual, captivating, astonishing, sometimes tragic history too ...

In addition to useful practical tips and the precise description of the routes, these hikes in the form of stories are aimed at the beginner or the confirmed mountain. They bring together a Pyrenean memory without worry from the border.

of the Basque country in the Hautes-Pyrénées, from Luchonian Pyrenees in Haute-Garonne, Ariège to the Pyrenees-Orientales, the authors gathered stories which evoke a form of cultural hike, combining knowledge of the ground, Passion and history. The Adventure of Count Russell and its caves in the vigNemale, the path of the math in the valley of Aspe, the Orrys Ariege, the transit and logging station called the Cathedral of the Col de Salau, the forest of the massane in the Albères ... l

E vast and near Spanish slope, from Navarre to Aragon to Catalonia, is well represented. The conquest of the aneto, the crossing of the Faja de Las Flores in the massif of Ordesa-Mont-Lost or through the abandoned villages of the Sierra de Guara, the Mines of the Liat en Val Aran ... So much stories and itineraries that take you by hand and tells you a singular story.