Absolutely Chris.. and not to mention being shot at by the Guardia Civil.. (as happened on the night in question)
In addition to the itchy trigger fingers of the Guardia Civil on the Spanish side, the Germans also mounted patrols out on the hills at night on the French side of the Pyrenees.
I should have added that what takes us two days during our September Comet weekends, the wartime evaders did in one night - in silence.
Today, we do the walk in modern hiking kit - whereas back then, everything the evading airmen stood up in had been donated. Yes, we walk over the same routes but the experience is very different.
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