Climbing Pyla

Today, we climbed Pyla without oxygen, almost died half-way up, but finally managed to reach the windswept top of the giant sand dune that stands south of Bordeaux, France. This formation is really huge and certainly worth the sight. In an otherwise very flat oceanic region, its 340 feet elevation definitely stands out and makes it a legitimate tourist attraction that can easily get everyone’s attention. I heard that skiers have descended that huge dune and found the way to scribe a few turns in its ever moving sand. Evelyne and I just took up the stairs and after a successful ascent and a vertiginous descent ended up with pounds of sand in our shoes…