This familiar shape also makes it easily recognisable from afar, and it is particularly distinctive from the Boulevard des Pyrénées in Pau, some 55 km to the north.
■ Appearance
As normally seen from the north, the mountain presents itself as having two distinct peaks, although from the south two other summits are also visible. It stands separate from any surrounding peaks, being largely surrounded by the valleys of the Gave de Bious, to the west, and the Gave du Brousset, to the east. These two mountain streams come together in the hamlet of Gabas at the foot of the mountain’s northern slopes, to form the Gave d’Ossau. The Pic du Midi d’Ossau was reputedly first climbed in 1552 by an expedition led by François de Foix-Candale, later to become the Bishop of Aire. Although the success of this first climb is disputed, it is known that the mountain had been successfully climbed by 1787 when a military surveyor noted that a triangulation cairn had been built on the summit. The first fully recorded climb was by Guillaume Delfau accompanied by Mathieu (an Eaux-Bonnes shepherd) on October 2, 1797.The mountain offers many routes of ascent； the voie normale is a serious scramble and rock climb with a grading of PD, II+, 550 m. It approaches the summit via the Refuge de Pombie, a Club Alpin Francais owned mountain hut situated at 2,031 m (6,663 ft), and requires most of a day to execute.Politically, the mountain lies within the commune of Laruns, in the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Aquitaine region of France. It lies within the fully protected area of the Pyrenees National Park.

NE 15.4Km	Gourette
SE 21.5Km	Pyrénées National Park
NE 31.1Km	Luz Ardiden
SE 37.0Km	Gavarnie
NE 41.6Km	Barèges
NE 41.9Km	Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
SE 43.2Km	Monte Perdido
NE 43.9Km	Ourdis-Cotdoussan
NW 52.8Km	L'Hôpital-Saint-Blaise
SE 55.5Km	Aragnouet

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