article_snippet: Getting there is a doddle.
article_snippet: It wasn't a difficult climb - by car, that is.
article_snippet: Others were doing It on foot or on racing bikes,
article_snippet: the latter inspired by the Tour de France, which passes this way most years.
article_snippet: Just before you reach the summit, there's a grave by the side of the road, a memorial to the great British cyclist Tommy Simpson, who died from heart failure in 1967 on one of the hottest days ever recorded in the race.
article_snippet: His last words were: 'Put me back on the bloody bike.'