The Turon du Néouvielle is a summit 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. ...
, culminating at 3,035 m, located in the
Néouvielle Range, on the edge of the
Pyrenees National Park. 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
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, 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, 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 ex ...
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Mountains of the Pyrenees
Mountains of Hautes-Pyrénées
Landforms of Hautes-Pyrénées
Pyrenean three-thousanders