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The Cirque de Gavarnie is a Great sheer wall, streaked with waterfall, about 300 high. It's reached on foot, mule or horseback from the village of Gavarnie. The trip from there to the cirque takes about 2 hours. You can take a path up the right hand side of the valley from the church at Gavarnie, which gives good views of the cirque and the waterfall that spins from the top on the trail to the Brèche de Roland. There are 2 passes : the Brèche and the Fausse Brèche, a few hundred metres further on. If you walk up there, you can stay in the C.A.F. hut below the summit before you return, perhaps crossing the frontier for a scramble on Mont Perdido (3355m). There is superb walking all around Luz and Gavarnie and on the way into Gavarnie you will find by the roadside a statue of Count Henry Russell, a mountaineer and noted eccentric. |
 Gavarnie Cirque |