After a seemingly endless winter of snow and cold, followed by the rain, gales and misery of England, Terry thought it would be good to get some sunshine. But a quick look around the Med resorts revealed temperatures no better than 12-14C and even snow and gales.
But Tenerife always keeps a reasonable temperature of 22-30C both summer and winter, due to the Trade winds. And so it came about, a trip to Tenerife, a first visit, for a bit of sight-seeing and a bit of climbing.
At 3718m, El Teide is the highest mountain in Spain. It can be climbed in 4 to 5 hours or take the cable car for 25euro. However, a permit is required to walk to the very top (cable car stops 200m below summit on the only stable rock around). Permits are free but need to be booked weeks or even months in advance, since only 200 per day are issued.
But you have to get a bit of climbing in too, don’t you? Here are a couple of climbing shots on the towers of El Teide.
I was taken by Tenerife and sorry that I had always rejected it as a destination – I’ll be back!
Looks great Terry, well done. Hey I remember that film with Chuck and James Fransico I think and lots of film with no shirts on and bad makeup.
Hello Steph, Yeah I’ve done a bit more research and it turns out that quite a few films have used Teide National Park as a location:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park
Did you ever get there?
Climbing looks good… and useful beta about getting a permit for the summit of El Teide well in advance.
🙂
I’m sitting on the train to London, so I’ll set a quiz 😈
1. What famous British climber died on El Tiede some years ago ❓
2. Why should many of this blog’s devotees be grateful to him ❓
3. What kind of car did he drive ❓
Crikey Terry, that’s a tough one! I have no ideas? (I even Googled for a bit and found nothing. Not sure I was searching for anything near to the right thing though.)
http://www.smc.org.uk/Gallery/SMC%20Pioneers/GGM.php