Hiking guide - Mercantour and Prealps of Azur, The Most Beautiful Hiking | Glénat (French)

The most beautiful hikes off the beaten track to discover one of the most beautiful and vast wild areas in Europe! Behind the window a little screaming of the coast Azur is one of the most beautiful and the largest wild spaces in France and Europe, including the Mercantour National Park is a real sanctuary. Limestone of the prealps of azure, to the gneiss and granites which, more than 3,000 m, form the high peaks of the Mercantour, through the schists, Pelites, sandstone who house the amazing valley of wonders or the high peaks of The Ubaye and Haut Verdon, the possibilities of routes outside the beaten track in constantly renewed landscapes are legion.
This guide is an invitation to put the steps in the trace of the pioneers - Such Victor de Cessole and his famous Jean Plent Guide in the 1900s - , far from the archi routes described and traveled. We are here in the paradise of hiker - mountaineer. Evolving in a virgin nature of any trace of markup offers pleasures to anyone else. "Read" the itinerary, find the old trace, detect the passage that leads to the top ... Is it not that the true pleasure of the discovery, the soul True Alpine Hiking? This sensation of adventure offers satisfactions that, far from our consumer societies, affect essentially and dispense a wealth that is priceless: the happiness of feeling in its place in the middle of these mountains, free and Savage. The itineraries, little or no known,, however, lead to major peaks of the region.
They come from the hike off path, even the alpine hike, and add to the experienced hikers In all - terrain.