Denali 10 feet shorter than previously thought

[Traveler]

It looks like measuring technology is improving, the mountain is now measured at 20,310 feet:
http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs ... ghest-peak

[summit21]

Interesting...I wonder if there are plans to do the same with the peaks in Colorado. Huron, Holy Cross, and Sunshine could be casualties with new measurements.

[LarryM]

Interesting...I wonder if there are plans to do the same with the peaks in Colorado. Huron, Holy Cross, and Sunshine could be casualties with new measurements.

They'll have to pry my fourteeners out of my cold, dead hands.

[dsunwall]

Denali remains the highest mountain in North America, the third highest mountain in the world, and is one of the world’s renowned “Seven Summits”.

from the USGS page. anyone see a mistake? I think they should have stated; the third highest of the "seven summits."

[skik2000]

Denali remains the highest mountain in North America, the third highest mountain in the world, and is one of the world’s renowned “Seven Summits”.

from the USGS page. anyone see a mistake?

:cancels trip to Kanchenjunga:

[jaymz]

See what happens when you go changing the names of things?

[alpinenut]

I think they just looked at the list of Seven Summits, decided since it was 3rd on there, it must therefore be the 3rd highest in the world. I suppose that's a reasonable mistake if you're not obsessed with mountains and mountain lists like most of the people on this site. The writers emails are on the press release they must have already received quite a few emails point out their mistake.

[Sean Nunn]

Denali remains the highest mountain in North America, the third highest mountain in the world, and is one of the world’s renowned “Seven Summits”.

from the USGS page. anyone see a mistake? I think they should have stated; the third highest of the "seven summits."

I caught that too. I believe alpinenut is right. On the good side, I can now say I have climbed all of the North American peaks over 6193 meters.

Sean Nunn
Raytown MO

[Traveler]

Denali remains the highest mountain in North America, the third highest mountain in the world, and is one of the world’s renowned “Seven Summits”.

from the USGS page. anyone see a mistake? I think they should have stated; the third highest of the "seven summits."

Good catch--I hope they are more accurate in their measurements than in their press releases!

[alpinenut]

Ha ha, from one of the authors of the PR:

You are correct in a battle of semantics. Perhaps a better way to phase it would have been, "Denial is the world's 3rd highest peak in terms of prominence". However, the article I co-authored was written for a more general public, and the nuance of prominence vs elevation vs topography vs etc would be mostly lost on them - and would require many more definitions.

The people of Alasaka and the climbers who have conquered Denali believe it is #3, and that was also an important factor in my decision.

Fair point about the general public but I don't think most of the general public would even read that PR

[skik2000]

Ha ha, from one of the authors of the PR:

You are correct in a battle of semantics. Perhaps a better way to phase it would have been, "Denial is the world's 3rd highest peak in terms of prominence". However, the article I co-authored was written for a more general public, and the nuance of prominence vs elevation vs topography vs etc would be mostly lost on them - and would require many more definitions.

The people of Alasaka and the climbers who have conquered Denali believe it is #3, and that was also an important factor in my decision.

Fair point about the general public but I don't think most of the general public would even read that PR

Please tell me that he actually spelled "Denali" as "Denial" in his response.

[Traveler]

Ha ha, from one of the authors of the PR:

Denial is the world's 3rd highest peak

You mean it's not just a river in Egypt?