whynotwalk wrote:Hi Nick - while it won't give you the kind of info you're after, there's plenty of inspiration to be had from Nicholas Crane's book "Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe". He took 17 months to get from the west of Spain to Istanbul via all the major mountain ranges of Europe, incl. the Alps.
Sounds like an great plan you're hatching. We had just a few weeks in the Alps last (northern) summer. Despite the high population density in its vicinity, it is a remarkable and inspiring place. Good luck with the plans - and we look forward to seeing/hearing what you end up doing,
cheers
Peter
Thanks for the suggestion!
Funnily enough, that is actually what I'm beginning to consider as a (very) long term plan. I've already done the Camino Frances and Pyrenees Haute Route, so that's the Iberian Peninsular sorted (although I guess I should probably go back and do the Catabrian Mountains I wanted to call it a 'mountain' traverse..). Over the last 12 months I've also been eyeing off the Central and Balkan alps, which would cover the harder bits of a full Euro traverse...
So now I just need to convince the girlfriend to fund my 'research trips'...