The Spasimata Slabs: the day I nearly died on Corsica’s GR20

This is the last in a trio of posts about our recent trek along the legendary GR20 long-distance trail on the island of Corsica. The story began in my first post, Rosé, ridges and laricio pines and continued in A surfeit of scrambling. Strap yourself in for the final thrilling episode.

Jakob’s Norwegian weather forecast wasn’t promising. We’d had it pretty good for the best part of two weeks, but the rain gods were preparing for the last dance. In truth, they’d been threatening to start it for a...