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18-Year-Old Replaces Cross Removed from 3,400m Pyrenees Summit
An unidentified person climbed to 3,400 meters in the Pyrenees, used an angle grinder to cut down the summit cross and threw it off the mountain. An 18-year-old Frenchman responded by carving a 35kg replacement cross and carrying it up the mountain himself. @MarioNawfal reported the sequence of events.
May 15, 9:40 AM·1m read1 source
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An unidentified individual climbed to the 3,400-meter summit in the Pyrenees, cut down the summit cross with an angle grinder and threw it off the mountain. The act left the high-altitude site without its longstanding cross until an 18-year-old Frenchman carved a 35kg replacement. He then carried the heavy wooden cross back up the mountain himself to restore it at the summit.
@MarioNawfal reported the sequence in which the original cross was removed at 3,400 meters in the Pyrenees and the subsequent replacement effort. The summit cross had stood at that elevation before the incident. The 18-year-old Frenchman's solo ascent with the 35kg cross completed the restoration at the same 3,400-meter location.
No other details about timing, identity or motive were disclosed.
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