Monte Perdido: Lost, and Found June 1989 Part Three :: Norm Zeigler

For an angler, the day never holds as much promise as when viewed from midstream at first light. When I stepped into the river the world was still shades of gray. But with the lightening sky, shapes flat and indistinct became bankside willows, yellow and pale green; peaks ochre and brown and slate; sand and gravel bars bleached-bone white and flecked with silver mica.

The Ara begins as a trickle among the jagged peaks in and around Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It is here in this wild, inhospitable region of the Spanish-French frontier that the Pyrenees reach their greatest height—Pico de Posets, 11,065 feet; Pico de Aneto (Spain’s second-highest peak), 11,168 feet.

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