The Pic du Midi de Bigorre by night

Joël Casteran has been a mountain guide for 26 years. Together with his friends and colleagues, he founded Acumpanyat Expériences, an agency specializing in hiking holidays in the Pyrenees. Their aim: to offer simple mountain hiking, centered on well-being, humanity and sharing! Joël takes you on a journey of discovery of the starry skies and lakes of the Pyrenees during his outings and holidays stamped Esprit parc national - Pyrénées!

We're fortunate to have little pollution in the night sky, and the Pic du Midi benefits from special weather conditions and air masses, which make for very clean skies. Our region offers different landscapes, with wild and authentic valleys, massifs, limestone cirques like Gavarnie, lakes..

For Joël, the Esprit Parc National label means being in tune with the values of the Pyrenees National Park, where a large part of his business takes place.

2 or 3 years ago, we took the step of becoming more involved in the National Park territory through the Esprit parc nationalbrand . We fully subscribe to the values espoused by the National Park, which are identical to our own.

The brand gives us an additional way of thinking about what we can do to protect the environment, and to think more carefully about our travels and picnics, by choosing local products, for example. We're trying to showcase the National Park and its environment, as with our starry sky outings. We have a more accomplished approach.

The Esprit Parc Nationallabel is also a form of credibility in the eyes of our customers, a link with nature that we emphasize.