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The Tourmalet is not only the highest col in the Pyrenees it is the mountain most visited by the Tour de France. For that reason alone, riding it at least once is obligatory for any serious student of the alchemy of suffering on two wheels. Since the first inclusion in 1910, it has been omitted from the Tour itinerary only 12 times, including 2005, and once, in 1922, at the last minute, because the road was blocked by an avalanche. When the race bypassed it in 1992, someone commented that a Tour which missed the giant of the Pyrenees was like a visit to Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower.