Peak of Annie

The peak of Annie is a top of the the French Pyrenees, it is the first Western summit exceeding 2500 meters. It is known with the Basque Country under the name Ahuñamendi “mountain of the chevrettes”.

Geography

It is located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques, close to the collar of Pierre Saint Martin's day.
Near the peak of Annie is spectacular the Karst of Larra (Massif of Larra-Belagua).
The 3 principal accesses to the peak are Belagua, Pierre-Saint-Martin and Lescun, also known under the name of French slope .

History

The July 28th 1771, took place the first rise known, by the engineer geographer Flamichon. It acts on a historical level of the third rise indexed for the Pyrenean solid mass. Here the account of Flamichon :

“I went to spend the night in a hut of Pasteur, with the foot of the mountain of Annie, to be more with range to climb on his top, the shortly after great morning. The next day, July 28th, I left at 3 o'clock in the morning of the foot of Annie. After much of tirednesses, and having passed on several bridges of snow, I reached his top towards the 9 heures. ”

Jean Latapie, Theory of the Earth, deduced from the organization of the Pyrenees and the countries adjacens , Pau, Tonnet, 1816, p. 117-118 :

Legends

In the Basque Mythology, the top of the peak of Annie was regarded as the field of the Jaunagorri (the red lord ). There was a marvellous garden where fruits of immortality pushed. But the daring ones which tried to seize some were pushed back by storms or storms of hail started by this divinity.

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