• the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees is Aneto?
• Count Henry Russell held receptions for princes and notables in a cave on the peak of Vignemale (pictured) in the Pyrenees?
• Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717?
• medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees?

Facts on topics related to Pyrenees

Alps

• according to National Geographic, La Maratona (2008 race pictured), an annual competition held in the Dolomites of the Italian Alps, is "one of the biggest, most passionate, and most chaotic bike races on Earth"?
• as a Winchester schoolmaster, Robert Lock Graham Irving introduced George Mallory to mountaineering in the Alps?
• despite his commitment to historical accuracy, Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece The Battle of Alexander at Issus (pictured) is depicted as occurring in the Alps, in 16th century costume?
• more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette's summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize?
• the Valle d'Aosta DOC in the Alps of northwestern Italy is home to the highest elevated vineyards in all of Europe?
• the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps?
• the largest solar plant of the Alps was built on Loser mountain in Austria at 1,838 meters above sea level?

Geographic information system

• NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?

Geography

• French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania, the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age?
• in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
• the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers?
• the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?

Cartography

• Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
• Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?
• Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
• Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler, a map-maker, fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company?
• a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier?
• from 1946 to 1991, Ordnance Survey International provided a central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates?