10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONT PERDU»
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A Guide to the Pyrenees: Especially Intended for the Use of ...
MONT PERDU. 3,351 metres = io,994 feet. The Mont Perdu, the loftiest of the
limestone range of Gavarnie, and the third highest mountain of the whole
Pyrenees, is a favourite ascent, inasmuch as it is most favourably placed for a
magnificent ...
2
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting ...
Voyage au Mont-Perdu et dans les parties adjacentes de hautes Pyrenees, par L.
Ray- mond. Paris, an ix.- 180 1, 8 vs. This is a description of a journey to the
highest of the Pyrenees, which the author, like all his predecessors, at first found
...
3
A general collection of ... voyages and travels, digested by ...
We directed ourselves obliquely towards the enormous walls which bear up the
lake of Mont Perdu and its terrace, which brought us to the point from whence the
torrent precipitates itself, in a frightful cataract, to the bottom of the valley of ...
This col is the meeting-point of all the routes now recognised, and Ramond's
instinct led him to cast an eye upon it when scrutinising the Mont Perdu for the
first time. But he seems to have had doubts about the rocks below it, and when he
did ...
Sir Leslie Stephen, Douglas William Freshfield, Sir William Martin Conway, 1870
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An Itinerary of France, being a road and handbook to that ...
Early the next morning he continues to ascend across pointed rocks, without
seeing Mont Perdu, if, as frequently happens, a thick fog obscures the horizon.
After crossing a glacier, and turning round formidable ramparts, the projections of
...
Heinrich August Ottokar REICHARD, 1841
But in order to have the characteristic limit of the Pyrenees we must go to the
centre of the chain, i. e. to the environs of Mont Perdu, Marborf, and Vigue Male. I
remark as follows in places favourable to those kinds of observations : — there
are ...
7
A Descriphico Read-book of France ; Containing..
Early the next morning he continues to ascend across pointed rocks, without
seeing Mont Perdu, if, as frequently happens, a thick fog obscures the horizon.
After crossing a glacier, and turning round formidable ramparts, the projections of
...
8
A descriptive road-book of France
K i?i, n0t far f'0m the summit °l Mont Perdu, and beholds a cascade which, below
this precipice has forced itself a perpendicular passage through oifetf the rocks
forming a rampart to the summit. There is scarcely a space of ten inches between
...
Heinrich August O. Reichard, 1829
9
Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide
Case Study 17.3 Mont Perdu World Heritage Site, France and Spain The Mont
Perdu World Heritage Site of 30,639ha lies within two national parks, contiguous
along the national frontier between France and Spain in the central Pyrénées.
Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari, 2012
10
World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: A Handbook for ...
The whole is visually dominated by Mont Perdu itself and a range of spectacular
mountainscapes. Environmentally and topographically the two Parks are very
different: on the north, steep north-facing slopes, much rain, months of winter
snow ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONT PERDU»
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Pic du Midi covers 3,112 square kilometers spread across the Pyrénées National Park and Pyrénées-Mont Perdu, a UNESCO World Heritage ... «CNN, Mar 14»
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu Historic Site of Lyons Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Belfries of Belgium and France Jurisdiction of Saint- ... «Adevărul, Mar 13»
Le goût de la marche
Le site Pyrénées-Mont Perdu est inscrit par l'Unesco au patrimoine mondial de l'humanité comme paysage culturel exceptionnel. Pas question ... «Le Figaro, May 10»
