title: Pointe Chausenque
text: # Pointe Chausenque
  
  La Pointe Chausenque, culminating at 3,204 m is a summit in the Massif du Vignemale in the French Pyrenees.
  
  ## 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 on June 30, 1822. The summit was reached from the Petit Vignemale by the ridge linking both summits.
  
  