The Turon du Néouvielle is a summit in the French
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to C ...
, culminating at 3,035 m, located in the
Néouvielle Range, on the edge of the
Pyrenees National Park
The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to ...
. It is famous for having the first recorded ascent of a Pyrenees peak over 3,000 metres.
History
In 1787, on the second of August, Jean-Joseph Vidal, an astronomer from
Mirepoix
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, and the chemist Henri Reboul from
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...
, who was studying the snowmass in the Pyrenees, made the first recorded ascent. They gave their names to the rocky ridge which extends from the crest of Turon towards
Cap-de-Long Lake.
Access
The peak is easily accessible from
Barèges
Barèges (; oc, Varètja, , in the Gascon dialect) is a communes of France, commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées departments of France, department, administrative regions of France, administrative region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitan ...
, going past the alpine "hut" of ''Refuge de la Glère'', by Lake Glère.
See also
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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 ...
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Mountains of the Pyrenees
Mountains of Hautes-Pyrénées
Landforms of Hautes-Pyrénées
Pyrenean three-thousanders