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Jabi Álvarez
High Mountain and Canyoning Guide

Ridges in the Pyrenees

If you like easy climbs, the atmosphere given by aerial passageways and you want to avoid typical routes, we offer you different ridges in the Pyrenees, performed with some crambling and climbing and not very difficult to achieve which will make us enjoy an ascension out of the conventionalisms of typical routes.

Let yourself be guided through a more technical path and learn hand in hand with a IFMGA High Mountain guide how to securely progress through these mountain areas.

We are offering you some of the most classical ones, but remember that, as in other activities, if you have another different project, you can tell us and we will guide you there.

  • Price: From 150€/pax
  • Included: High mountain IFMGA guide service, necessary technical material for the climb (rope, harness, helmet, crampons, ice axes and group material) Insurance for the activity.
  • Not included: Transport, shelter expenses, food and extras.
  • Máximum 2 participants
  • Dates: from April until October
  • Duration: 1 to 2 days.

Necessary material

Adequate clothes for mountain (Gore-tex or similar jacket, mountain trousers, thermal-socks, cap, thermal t-shirt, thin gloves, sunglasses, 30 litres backpack, water bottle, attack food (sweet and salty), isotonic drink, suncream, head torch and extra batteries. For the ascensions in which we will stay in a shelter for a night:  toilet bag and a light sleeping bag.

Programs / proposals

  • From May to October
  • 1 journey (possibility of 2 journeys with bivouac in the Alba Ibones "glaciar lakes")
  • 1.500m
  • D-

For some is the most savage past of the Maladeta zone, which has an amazing rocky ground and a privileged view that will guarantee a long but very satisfactory mountain journey. Despite it’s a quite long route, the multiple gendarmes that compose the ridge will allow us to retire in case we are too tired […]

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  • From May to October
  • 1 journey
  • 1.300m
  • AD

Placed inside the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, it’s without any doubt the most classical ridge and famous of the park given the number of 3,000 metres summits that ascends through the edge that connects the Besiberri North to Besiberri South summits with final destination in the Comoloforno peak, with 3033 metres […]

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  • From June to September
  • 2 to 3 journeys
  • Day 1: Respumoso shelter 3h, positive slope 800m / Day 2: just Diablos 7h, positive slope 900m - Diablos-Costerillou 12h, positive slope1.200m
  • D+ with passages from IVº to Vº

This edge, along with the Salenques-Tempestades al Aneto one, is one of the two edges with the biggest size and name that we can climb in the Pyrenees, especially if we make it in just one journey. With the Balaitus being the king of the zone, it is the first 3,000 metres Pyrenean mountain coming […]

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  • From May to October
  • 1 journey
  • 1.300m
  • AD

With this activity we offer you an ideal ridge to get started in this field. It’s the most western edge among those we offer you and ascends to the most representative peak of Aragon Valley, the Aspe, with 2,645m. It’s a climb of a moderate difficulty in an amazing mountain environment. It has two different […]

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  • From May to October
  • 1 journey
  • 1.000m
  • AD+ with several IIIº passages and some of IVº

Beautiful and very recommended activity for ridge-lovers. Placed in the Néouvielle massif, inside the natural reserve which takes the name from the same massif. It’s a medium difficulty ridge, one of the most beautiful activities given the quality of the rock and the average difficulty of its passages. Guaranteed scene.

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  • From June to September
  • 2 journeys (for the complete option)
  • 1.800m
  • D wit several IIIº passages and some Vº passages

Without a doubt, this is the queen of ridges. It is the most famous, classical and desired for those who love this type of activities. Major activity for people with experience in this kind of activities, it’s really the combination of two magnificent ridges, the Salenques-Margalida one and the Tempestades-Aneto one. For this reason, we […]

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  • From May to October
  • 2 journeys
  • 600m first journey & 1.300m second journey
  • PD+ isolated III passages

Amazing viewpoint between Benasque and Chistau valleys. It is an amazing and aerial edge, that even with a more average difficulty than the others we offer, its passages do not exceed the III grade, it will take us from the Espadas Peak to the Posets peak, always above 3,000 metres.

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  • From June to September
  • 2 journeys with sleepover in Serradets shelter
  • 1.100m, 300m to reach the shelter and 900m for the ascension.
  • D with III and IV passages

Amazing route through the impressive Gavarnie Valley where only the approximation it’s an activity itself. This ridge, with an average difficulty ends in the Marboré Peak (3248m), in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It is It is a marked line which erects from the bottom of Gavarnie cirque to the top of Marboré peak […]

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  • From May to October
  • 2 journeys with sleepover in Baysellance shelter
  • 800m ascension to shelter + 800m for the ridge (1.600m)
  • AD

In the French massif of Vignemale we find the amazing and aerial ridge with an average difficulty that will surprise us for its contrasts. It’s an elegant way to ascend to the Pique Longue of Vignemale, where we will go through several 3,000 metres summits, carrying out half of the summits which conform the Vignemale […]

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  • From June to October
  • 1 long journey from Sarra or 2 journeys (with sleepover in Arremoulit from Artouste)
  • 1.550m
  • D- with passages up to Vº

This climb will lead us to a not very known mountain that doesn’t reach the 3,000 metres just for six metres. It is a huge granite mass composed by four edges, in which we will need to climb no matter the route we choose. Among all its entrances, the most elegant route is the Piton Von […]

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  • From May to October
  • 1 journey
  • 1.200m
  • AD with several III passages and some isolated IVº passages

Impressive granite mole, the Midi d’Ossau erects in the border with France as an isolated mountain, which erects as one of the most inaccessible peaks of the zone even if it doesn’t reach the 3,000 metres high. That makes compulsory the climb to reach the summit no matter which route you choose.   This journey […]

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  • From May to October
  • 1 journey (possibility of spending a night in the shelter)
  • 1.500m
  • AD+ (difficulties in the acces to the Maldito Peak, after it's IIº)

Beautiful and easy ridge that will allow you to reach six 3,000 metres summits. Ideal to get started in this field. It has its biggest difficulties in the climb from the Collado de Abadías to Pico Maldito. There are some passages rated with a III-IV degree. We can complete the activity entering from the Maladeta […]

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  • From June to September
  • 1 journey
  • 1.500m
  • AD+ with several IIIº passages and a IVº passage

Among all the ridges we can perform in the Benasque Valley, this one, together with the Llosars Ridge, will be a good training in case you want to perform the Salenques-Tempestades-Aneto one. A little bit easier than others and not that long, but not less interesting, it’s a good activity to carry out in an […]

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  • From June to September
  • 1 journey
  • 1.600m
  • AD IIIº and IVº passages

Neighbour in its South face with the Cregüeña Ridge, it will be a little bit more difficult and will reward us whit the reach to the top of the Pyrenees, the Aneto. With several IVº passages and several rappels, it will leave the taste of a great mountain activity in our mouth. This activity, with […]

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