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Encantado, by the normal route, carried out in 1901, are attributed to Negrín, Romeo, Salles and Ciffre, according to the Pyrenean Patrice de Bellefont. The Enchanted Little One was climbed, the following year, by Astorg, Castagne and Brulle. According to Bellefont, also
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The
Enchanted are part of a set of metamorphic rocks, which come from the transformation of sedimentary rocks due to the conditions of temperature and pressure to which they were subjected. These rocks have given rise to these emblematic peaks, formed by metamorphic limestone. Petrographically, the
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Today there are many mountaineers or climbers who try any of the normal routes of ascent. The busiest is that of Gran
Encantado, through the Monestero valley, with a graduation of "not very difficult", despite the fact that some sections are quite risky and dangerous. The Little Enchanted One is
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Catalonia, it is traditionally considered that Mosén Jaime Oliveras was the first to climb this mountain (the Great Enchanted) in 1910. The truth is that, in the summer of 1911 and alone, he climbed the Little Enchanted , having to overcome infinite difficulties and running obvious
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The name comes, like that of many other mountains, from an ancient legend. It seems that two hunters, one Sunday morning, wanting to be the first to hunt down the chamois, did not attend Sunday mass, for which they were cursed, remaining petrified forever, turned into those two vertical peaks.
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usually climbed from the gorge, but the climb of these 100 meters is classified as "very difficult" (4th degree steps) since it is a vertical rock wall that is not very safe. The descent is done by abseiling (double rope) by the same route by which it has been climbed.
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Escrita valley is formed by the same normal granite of the
Pyrenean axial axis; but these two peaks are made of folded slate and calcareous rock, of a not very good quality but which, nevertheless, has given rise to these spectacular spiers.
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dangers. This rise had an impact that the others did not, possibly because of the popularity that
Oliveras enjoyed among the society of the time.4
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