Organized by the A.S.A.C.B.B. (Association Sportive Auto Club Basco Bearnais) and the Écurie des Cimes, the 30th edition of the Rallye des Cimes was a round of the 1986 French All-Terrain Rally Championship. The event was contested from 29/31 August 1986 near the village of Licq-Athérey in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, south-western France.

The 1986 Rallye des Cimes was marred by the death of one of the competitors, which was reported to be the first fatality since the first edition of the event, held in 1951.

On Saturday, 30 August 1986, the experienced French off-road rally driver Jean "Jeannot" Labarrière, 49, lost control of his #45 Mercedes-Benz 280GE which left the road, rolled over and fell into a deep ravine, landing on trees. Labarrière received severe injuries from which he was pronounced dead on arrival at nearby Oloron-Sainte-Marie hospital. His co-driver Jean-Michel Lahitte from Bordeaux, suffered a concussion but survived the accident.

Originally from Léognan in the Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, Jeannot Labarrière started his career as a karting driver. He switched to off-road racing, at the wheel of a Jeep Willys Bleue, then he drove a Jeep CJ5 and finally the Mercedes-Benz 280GE in which he would lose his life.

R.I.P