A moment in time Lapize tames the Pyrenees
‘It is not without real emotion that I write these lines today, thinking that, at this very moment, the most appalling task of the 1910 Tour de France has begun, and that our riders, already tested by 2,500km of roads strewn with countless difficulties, have departed for Luchon, thus starting the first of two terrible Pyrenean stages. No one yet knows if we have not exceeded the limits, if we do not ask too much of the human spirit.’
Those were the words of L’Auto’s Charles Revaud on the day the Tour’s peloton entered the Pyrenees for the very first time. It was no
