A landscape of forbidding peaks west of Bilbao plays host to an improbable world full of wild flowers, animals and resilient cheesemakers Halfway across the first glacial depression, I leave the footpath to stand on a snow patch, disturbing a spider that runs off across the frozen crystals. A fe...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/jun/29/adventure-travel-hike-picos-de-europa-spain)