Pic de Montferrat | |
Elevation M: | 3219 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Range: | Massif du Vignemale Pyrenees |
Map: | Pyrenees |
Coordinates: | 42.7669°N 0.1383°W |
Location: | France / Spain |
Region: | Midi-Pyrénées Communauté autonome d'Aragon |
Region Type: | Région Communauté |
District: | Hautes-Pyrénées Huesca |
District Type: | Département Province |
First Ascent: | 1792 par des bergers ? |
The Pic de Montferrat, culminating at 3129m (10,266feet), is a crest summit on the Franco-Spanish border, in the massif du Vignemale in the Pyrenees.
It is located in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, between Cauterets and Gavarnie, arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost in the Pyrenees National Park. It is bordered to the north by the glacier d'Ossoue and by le petit glacier du Montferrat to the south-east.
The first ascension was carried out by shepherds, on August 1, 1792, who built a turret on the summit, ordered by Louis-Philippe Reinhart Junker who led a team of geodesists in charge of defining the Franco-Spanish border path.