The guidebook has walks and climbs in the Picos de Europa, a limestone range
to the north of the central section of the Cordillera Cantabrica, on the
northern Atlantic shore of Spain, Europe. Routes divided into two main groups:
valley-based and mountain, of all grades.
Though relatively modest in terms of altitude and extent, the Picos are, in
fact, unique among Europe’s mountains in a number of ways: geologically, for
being the largest single mass of mountain limestone in the continent,;
geographically, for being the only true maritime range Europe possesses and
sociologically, for retaining even to this day a large part of the culture
that has for centuries been the basis of life in the towns and villages dotted
around the area.
The first section of the book deals with background information such as
geology, flora, fauna and history and the routes have been divided into two
main groups: valley based routes and mountain routes.
