The crossing

The legend

It was the summer of 1987 when some guards of the area refuges decided to make the journey: Pallars – Ribagorça – Aran, in a single day. It was not a competition, only a way to visit the other guards and chat a while.

Someone, we don’t know exactly who, nor why, called it Carros de Foc (chariots of fire). Since then, when someone makes the trip in one day, summer or winter, the message goes from refuge to refuge, as fast as the wind crosses the hills: “Here come the chariots of fire.”

Since that summer of 1987 many walkers, runners and mountaineers have enjoyed the Carros de Foc journey and many repeat the experience because there are always corners filled with beauty yet to be discovered.

Our challenge is to spread the love we feel for these mountains and show the beauty of this extraordinary journey that this experience provides our clients.

Regions

Pallars, the High Ribagorça and the Val d’Aran are some of  the most beautiful areas of the Pyrenees. They form the Aigues Tortes and Sant Maurici Lake National Park.

Discovering these landscapes has always been one of the objectives of most of the mountaineers. Perhaps that is why shelters were put in the area with the idea of helping climbing and trekking groups. Over time these shelters have become a part of the landscape. Now we can find a total of nine shelters allowing us to visit the area with a variety of different routes.

To do the Carros de Foc classic journey one needs between 5 and 7 days.