Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes

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  • Author: Simon Calder
  • Publisher: Virgin Publishing
  • Catalogue: 131566
  • Size: 19x13cm
Long-term friends Simon Calder and Mick Webb have been travelling together since 1998 and in Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes, they explore the High Passes of the Pyrenees. A full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation, it 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 the most breathtakingly beautiful landscape to be found in Europe.



Together, Calder and Webb step out to conquer the roof of the Pyrenees, following the time honoured tradition of walking the GR10, the preferred route of the French Ramblers' Federation. Testing a hiker's emotional resilience as keenly as his walking boots, the GR10 is not for the faint-hearted. With their backpacks, boots and baguettes, they explore the region: meeting the people, savouring the views and the wines - and arguing about how best to cope with the constant surprises and challenges of these most magnificent mountains.