Agulla Tourrat, Mountain summit in Hautes-Pyrénées, France.
Agulla Tourrat is a 3,014-metre summit on the northern ridge of Pic Maubic, in the Néouvielle massif of the Hautes-Pyrénées, France. Its prominence is only 16 metres, so it reads as a minor rise on the ridge rather than a free-standing peak.
Agulla Tourrat is a 3,014 m summit on the northern ridge of Pic Maubic in the Néouvielle massif, Hautes-Pyrénées. Its topographic prominence is only 16 m, so it is a secondary top of that ridge rather than an independent peak. The sources record no first ascent, survey date or park history for it.
The name Tourrat appears in Catalan as Agulla Torrat and in Basque as Tourrat Orratza, the forms used in the two Wikipedia articles on the peak. The summit stands on the northern ridge of Pic Maubic in the Néouvielle massif, Hautes-Pyrénées, and is listed among the Pyrenean three-thousanders.
Agulla Tourrat stands on the north ridge of Pic Maubic, in the Néouvielle massif of the Hautes-Pyrénées. Its 16 m prominence means it is a minor rise on the ridge rather than a separate objective, so approach it along the ridge from Pic Maubic. The summit lies at 3,014 m, above the usual snowline for much of the year.
The summit rises only about 16 metres above the ridge connecting it to Pic Maubic, so it is a minor top rather than an independent mountain. Its Catalan name, Agulla Torrat, and its Basque name, Tourrat Orratza, both refer to the same 3,014-metre point in the Néouvielle massif.
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