Twice Torn Down and Twice Raised Again

 

Twice Torn Down and Twice Raised Again — The Story of the Aneto Cross: 

 

In mid-April, the historic iron cross on Aneto in the Pyrenees, installed in 1951, was cut down with a grinder and thrown off the mountain. Spanish authorities opened an investigation. On May 8, French climber Maël Le Lagadec, 18, carried a self-built 35-kg wooden cross to the 3,404-meter summit to replace it. 

Days later, the new cross was also torn down and thrown down the slope. 

Spanish climbers recovered it from the snow and reinstalled it on the summit.

 

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