Peak of Taillon

See also: Taillon

The Pic of Taillon is a top located on the Franco-Spanish Frontière in the Massif of Mount-Lost.

The peak of Taillon is regarded as one of easiest the 3000 m of the Cirque of Gavarnie. Only the last part since the finger of the False Breach is a little stiff but never difficult technically when there is no snow. The sight since the top is imposing.

Geography

It belongs to the belt of the Cirque of Gavarnie, and is located between the Finger of the False Breach and Gabiétous. Mark the limit between the National park of the Pyrenees (France) and the National park of Ordesa and of Mount-Lost (Spain).

Located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées, close to Gavarnie canton of Luz-Saint-Saver, he belongs to the belt of the Cirque of Gavarnie.

History

The first known rise is that of the military cartographer Spanish Heredia, in 1792. Out of 1895, Henri Flaring and the guide Célestin Passet made the first rise of the northern face.

Rise

To go up in Taillon, a solution is to park its car with the collar of the Tents (since Gavarnie, to follow the road which goes up to the ski station and to continue until the terminus). From there, to go to foot to the collar of Boucharo then to take on the left to follow the path which leaves to side to a cascade. One reaches then the refuge of Sarradets (also called refuge of the breach of Roland). One follows the path which goes up to the breach of Roland to pass on the Spanish slope. To take on the line the path which goes to the Finger of the False Breach then which mount directly at the top of Taillon.

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The card, topo and of the photographs on Randozone.com

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