It is deadly boring, but magical: the secret behind the Teide, the ‘wonder mountain’ where Wout van Aert stays a little longer to prepare for spring

It’s poke boring. It’s drumming to sleep there for the Wout van Aerts or Remco Evenepoels of this world – you can still go yourself, but be quick. The ‘wonder mountain’ El Teide for dummies. The guides: Jurgen Van den Broeck, the Belgian pioneer, and analyst Dirk De Wolf, who spends half the year on the island. “You are forced to live like a hermit.”