📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For mountain lovers! Come to spend two weeks in altitude between the Atlantic Pyrenees and the Aragon region.
Espace Pourtalet is a resource center created in order to develop mountain tourism in a partnership between the GECT, the French Pyrénées Atlantiques County and the Spanish Aragon region. This year Concordia organizes a work camp in order to improve the trans- boundary links in this mountain area. The Espace Pourtalet is located on the top of the Col du Pourtalet, surrounded by the magnificent Pyrenees Mountains. It is unique opportunity to experience life in the mountains and meet its people from both sides of the border.
💼 What the programme involves
You will work in two separate sites: one on the Spanish side of the border and another on the French one. The results of your work will be exhibited during the “heritage days”. Beside the renovation work, you’ll also participate to cleaning actions and raising awareness about respecting the environment.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents (2 per tent, floor mats provided) on the work place. The site is at 1600 m. of altitude and it is accessible by car. Living conditions in the collectivity are basic as you will be in the mountain all week, but you’ll have access to a building with water and electricity. Equip yourself against the cold and rain. You will share the various collective tasks and prepare meals together.
📍 About the location
The Col du Pourtalet is located 30 km south of Eaux-Bonnes and at 80 Km south of Pau city, on the Spanish border.
You'll be in the mountains for the restoration work and you will sleep on site. Hiking, climbing initiation and discovery of local traditions will be the main leisure activities offered.
⚠️ Requirements
Bring a 0-degrees sleeping bag, very warm clothes and other lightweight clothes as well as rain gear, mountain hiking shoes, mosquito repellent, flashlight, batteries, sunscreen and swimsuit. A backpack is necessary to go up and down the mountain every day. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.