Five days’ walking from the Atlantic
Changing valleys once or even twice a day, it snakes up minor passes but shuns the highest peaks of the range, passing through countryside which is sometimes rugged, sometimes bucolic, but rarely banal. At the end of the day it makes a detour to sniff out a meal and a bed.
I walked the Pyrenean Way (GR10) over a period of four years. Here, I want to share my passion for the mountains, and incidentally to promote my book about them. -- Steve Cracknell
The Pyrenean Way is a footpath running the length of the Pyrenees from Hendaye on the Atlantic coast to Banyuls on the Mediterranean.
If you’ve never heard of it, that’s not surprising. I have just invented it. Or, more exactly, the name. In French it is called the GR10 or the Traversée des Pyrenées. The former sounds like some kind of motorway and the latter translates as the ‘Pyrenean Crossing’, suggesting a much shorter walk. Liking neither of them, I have decided to baptise it the Pyrenean Way, for English speakers.
