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About the Author

Alan has trekked in over 30 countries within Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australasia, and for 17 years led organised walking holidays in several European countries. A member of the British Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, he has written more than a dozen walking guidebooks, several on long-distance mountain routes in France. His longer solo walks include a grand traverse of the European Alps between Nice and Vienna (2430km/1510 miles), the pilgrims’ trail from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostela (1545km/960 miles) and a coast-to-coast across the French Pyrenees (870km/540 miles).

A veteran of many long-distance high-level walks, Alan first encountered the European Alps as a schoolboy back in the late 1960s, when he cycled through them and climbed several of their more modest peaks. Since those early days he has returned many times, and his tally of long jaunts through these mountains includes the Tours of Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Oisans, Vanoise, Grand Paradiso and Vercors, the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, Alta Via 1 and 2 in the Dolomites, the Alpine Pass Route across Switzerland, and a complete traverse of the Austrian Alps along the E4 Alpen.

Other Cicerone guides by Alan Castle

Walks In Volcano Country – Auvergne and Velay, France

Walking the French Gorges – Provence and the Ardèche

The Brittany Coastal Path

Walking in the Ardennes

The River Rhine Trail

Walking in Bedfordshire

The John Muir Trail

The Southern Upland Way

The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail – Cévennes, France

Alan also wrote the first and second editions of The Corsican High Level Route (1987, 1992) and A Pyrenean Trail (GR10) (1990, 1997).