Ollivier guide Pyrenees Centrales 2, Gavarnie-Mont-Perdu-Ordesa - Editions Cairn

As Vignemale, Gavarnie the Limestone Massif has a "high mountain" indisputable character by the extent of routes, their surroundings, the continuity of medium difficulty on the climbing routes, variety of terrain traversed alternating snow ice and rocks. But here, more than Vignemale, the decor is revealed specifically Pyrenean immense Colosseum "where harmony out of chaos everywhere" (Russell).

So the mountain, especially the climbers that do not put off the walls nor the airline vires, are reserved the true wonders of Gavarnie and Monte Perdido, "the most beautiful limestone mountains."

But if the Gavarnie already itself represents a unique natural phenomenon in Europe, what about the strangeness of greatness, the beauty of the great Spanish cannons. In this massif, which in the words of Schrader, the Pyrenees have that really belongs to them, in this region where there are both all they have bigger and all that they are more beautiful, the Arazas valley and the valley Niscle outweigh by far in grandeur and beauty.