Access to Pic du Midi
By road
By train
To join La Mongie by train (shod network + line bus) ou by taxi,
pratical information on the site of Tourist Office of Bagnères de Bigorre - La Mongie
By plane
The international airport is located in between Tarbes and Lourdes. Regular, charter and holiday flights.
By the hiking trails
It is possible to pay the visit of the site with one specific tariff : 20 € / adult and 10 € / child under 12. This ticket makes it possible to take the cable car to join back La Mongie.
Important : the ancient toll road is prohibited to any circulation (vehicles and pedestrians), it is particularly exposed to the stone falls.
Did you know?
The Pic du Midi is the only tourist site of altitude to reach, by its own means, the security level required for the establishments receiving of the public with in particular:
-Means interns of fire protection fight: 5 firemen 24 h/24,
-A capacity of reception of help: bed and restoration for 600 people on the site during 5 days the summer or 300 people during 10 days the winter. This instantaneous maximum flow visitors, fixed by the Departmental Commission of Safety, included each hiker who reaches the tourist installations,
-A complete pharmacy,
-An infirmary equipped with box hyperbare with decompression, a semi-automatic défibrillatrice,
-A direct connection with the SAMU 65 and the Departmental service d' Set fire to and Help, supplemented the presence of a nurse during the summer,
-The management and the maintenance of the infrastructures necessary to the life of the site, with in particular: routing and water treatment since Mongie, the purification plant, the management of waste, the management of the power supply of help….
