Ascending the Pyrenees

Marcel Compayre, Luchon, septembre 1895. Série A. Hanau n° 38,
originally uploaded by Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

The Tour de France* bicycle race begins this Saturday. The first stages will be in Brittany, then through the Massif Central, hitting the Pyrenees around Bastille Day, the Alps a week later and then on to Paris.
*(link broken, try this new site instead)
My guess is that the fellow pictured here had no performance-enhancing substance coursing through his system except perhaps for a bit of Irouléguy perhaps.