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</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:24.5em; line-height:1.5em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Pointe Chausenque</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding: 0.3em 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding: 0.2em 0em;">De gauche à droite : Pointe de Chausenque, <a href="Piton_Carr%C3%A9" title="Piton Carré">Piton Carré</a>, couloir de Gaube et Pique Longue du Vignemale</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Highest point</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Summit" title="Summit">Elevation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3,204 m (10,512 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Lists_of_mountains" title="Lists of mountains">Listing</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="List_of_Pyrenean_three-thousanders" title="List of Pyrenean three-thousanders">List of Pyrenean three-thousanders</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">
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</style><span class=" nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="geo:42.77361111111111,0.14166666666666666"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">42°46′25″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°08′30″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">42.77361°N 0.14167°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">42.77361; 0.14167</span></span></span></a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Geography</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1291884410">
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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es" title="Hautes-Pyrénées">Hautes-Pyrénées</a>, <a href="France" title="France">France</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es" title="Midi-Pyrénées">Midi-Pyrénées</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Mountain_range" title="Mountain range"><span class="nowrap">Parent range</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data category">Massif du Vignemale (<a href="Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Climbing</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="First_ascent" title="First ascent">First ascent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span data-sort-value="000000001822-06-30-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">June 30, 1822</span> by Vincent de Chausenque with a guide from <a href="Cauterets" title="Cauterets">Cauterets</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Normal_route" title="Normal route"><span class="nowrap">Easiest route</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data">From glacier d'Ossoue</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>La <b>Pointe Chausenque</b>, culminating at 3,204 m is a summit in the Massif du Vignemale in the French <a href="Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>.
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<p>Virtually as high as the glacier d'Ossoue to the south, it dominates from 600 m le glacier des Oulettes to the north.<br>It is the highest pyrenean summit located only in France, north of the French-Spanish border.
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<p>The first ascent was led out by Vincent de Chausenque and a guide from <a href="Cauterets" title="Cauterets">Cauterets</a> on June 30, 1822. The summit was reached from the <a href="Petit_Vignemale" title="Petit Vignemale">Petit Vignemale</a> by the ridge linking both summits.
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