What is Pic Palas?
{{Infobox mountain | name =Pic Palas | other_name = | photo =Pic Palas descente Ossau from fipi.jpg | photo_alt =View of Pic Palas | photo_size = | photo_caption =[[Summit]] of Pic Palas | elevation_m =2974 | elevation_ref =<ref name=pbag>{{cite web |url=http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=9771|title=Pic Palas, France/Spain |publisher=Peakbagger.com |language= |accessdate=27 March 2014 |date= }}</ref> | prominence_m = | parent_peak =[[Massif du Balaïtous]] | listing = | location =[[France]] | range =[[Pyrenees]] | topo = | first_ascent =1825 by Peytier and Hossard | easiest_route = | map =France | label_position = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | coordinates_ref = | coordinates = {{coord|42|50|58|N|0|18|48|E|region:FR}} | type = | age = | last_eruption = }} '''Pic Palas''' or '''Pic de Palas''' is a mountain in the [[Pyrenees]] on the [[Spain|Spanish]]–[[France|French]] border. It is the highest point of the [[France|French]] [[Regions of France|region]] of [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]] and of the [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]] department with an [[altitude]] of {{Convert|2974|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name=pbag /> ==Geography== Pic Palas is {{Convert|2974|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} high.<ref name=pbag /> It is on the ''Massif du Balaïtous'', a [[mountain range]] within the Pyrenees. The [[summit]] of this mountain is the point where the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[province]] of [[Huesca Province|Huesca]] and the French departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques ([[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]) and [[Hautes-Pyrénées]] ([[Occitanie]]) meet.<ref name=pbag /> ===Geologie=== The summit of Pic Palas, as well as the Massif du Balaïtous, is made of [[granite]]. ==History== The first ascent of this peak was made by the [[surveyor]]s Pierre Peytier and Paul-Michel Hossard in 1825 when they were trying to get to the ''Pic du Balaïtous''.<ref name=korpa>{{cite web |url=http://www.korpa.fr/pyreneesecretes/pre