Today, roughly 5.6km further than the Cruz de Ferro, and roughly 3.2km further than Manjarín, we traversed the highest point on the Camino de Santiago (on the official route, not off-piste up a farmer’s track or similar) – what3words address ///wrongly.portrayed.scatters.

While many people choose to believe that the Cruz de Ferro is the highest point (search for “highest point on the Camino“ to see this), it’s simply not true.

The base of the cross is at an altitude of 1500m – 1504m (depending on who you ask), and yet an hour or so later, the altitude of the route reaches between 1509m and 1512m – depending on whether you read GPS data or an iPhone’s compass altitude. Either way, it’s a good 5m – 8m higher.

Even the route over the Pyrenees has a maximum altitude of 1430m – 1450m (again, depending on who you ask).

To mark the occasion, I left a handwritten note on a stone slab that I’d carried uphill for the preceding 250m or so 💪.