The Pic Schrader or Grand Batchimale is a central
Pyrenean summit, culminating at , located for the most part in
Spain
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. It buckles the Louron valley with its impressive silhouette
It is located between the massifs of
Monte Perdido
Monte Perdido (in Spanish; Mont Perdu in French; Mont Perdito in Aragonese;all four meaning ''lost mountain'') is the third highest mountain in the Pyrenees. The summit of Monte Perdido (3355 m), located in Spain, lies hidden from France b ...
and
Posets.
Toponymy
Formerly named Grand Batchimale, it was renamed in honour of the mountaineer, cartographer, geographer and landscape painter
Franz Schrader
Jean Daniel François Schrader (January 11, 1844 – October 18, 1924), better known as Franz Schrader, was a French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer and landscape painter, born in Bordeaux. He made an important contribution to the mapping ...
(1844-1924), who charted many mountains and valleys in the Pyrenees in the 19th century and who carried out its first known ascent on August 11, 1878, with the mountain guide Henri Passet.
The name ''Batchimale'' is the name of the borderline crest of which it is the highest summit (there is also the
Petit Batchimale). Franz Schrader quotes in his memoirs the term ''Pic Pétard'' in the sense of ''Pic Tonnerre'' ("thunder").
Topography
It is located on the Franco-Spanish borderline crest between the Louron valley (
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. ...
) and the Spanish
Huesca
Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...
province, which is also situated on the Pyrenean
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
.
History
On August 11, 1878, at 10:05,
[ the first ascent was carried out by Franz Schrader, Henri Passet and a porter whose name is forgotten.
]
Access
Pic Schrader can be accessed from the French side through the valley of La Pez or from the refuge of La Soula. From the Spanish side, there are two itineraries, from the Viados refuge, following the western crest of la Punta del Sabre and, less frequented, passing by the Batchimale lakes.
See also
* List of Pyrenean three-thousanders
This list contains all of the Pyrenean three-thousanders, namely the 129 mountain summits of or more above sea level in the Pyrenees, a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain. The Pyrenees sep ...
References
Mountains of the Pyrenees
Mountains of Hautes-Pyrénées
Pyrenean three-thousanders
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