La Pointe Chausenque, culminating at 3,204 m is a summit in the Massif du Vignemale in the French

Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. ...

Topography

Virtually as high as the glacier d'Ossoue to the south, it dominates from 600 m le glacier des Oulettes to the north.
It is the highest pyrenean summit located only in France, north of the French-Spanish border.

History

The first ascent was led out by Vincent de Chausenque and a guide from

Cauterets Cauterets (; in Occitan ''Cautarés'', in Catalan ''Cautarés'', in Aragonese ''Cautarès'') is a spa town, a ski resort and a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department and the region of Occitanie in south-western France. Toponymy Histor ...

on June 30, 1822. The summit was reached from the

Petit Vignemale The Petit Vignemale is a summit in the French Pyrenees in the massif du Vignemale. Access is possible either by the Gaube valley (beyond Cauterêts), or la vallée d'Ossoue. Toponymy ''Vignemale'' is a tautological compound of two pre-Indo ...

by the ridge linking both summits.

References

{{Reflist Mountains of the Pyrenees Mountains of Hautes-Pyrénées Pyrenean three-thousanders