Everest NOT highest peak on earth!

[XterraRob]

Need to start at Challenger Deep in Mariana's Trench and make your way up to the highest point to be sure - No Oxygen tho

[mountaingoat-G]

" notice the indication that Mt Whitney (14,505 ft) in California and Mt Elbert (14,440 ft) in Colorado have virtually the same pressure altitude profile and that both drop below the coveted 14,000 foot mark during the normal climbing season of May through September. "

[TallGrass]

One of many reasons that Alexander von Humboldt was the most awesome dude ever.

A larger, readable, 34mb image is at the photo's wiki page

The air pressure on Denali is equivalent to 3000 feet higher on Everest.
https://8kpeak.com/pages/altitude-real-feel

Huh? From that link...

[martinleroux]

The air pressure on Denali is equivalent to 3000 feet higher on Everest.
https://8kpeak.com/pages/altitude-real-feel

Huh?

Here's long-winded attempt at an explanation. What the chart's trying to say is that if you calibrated a barometric altimeter at sea level in Anchorage, AK and immediately flew by helicopter to the summit of Denali then the altimeter would typically over-read by anywhere from 0 to about 2000' at the summit, depending on the time of year (in other words, the air pressure at summit of Denali is typically somewhat lower then the ICAO standard atmosphere model would predict). Whereas if you did the same thing on the shores of the Indian Ocean and immediately flew to the summit of Everest, the altimeter would typically under-read by 500 to 1,700'. If you're creative about the time of year that you do this on each peak and you add the over-reading on Denali to the over-reading on Everest, you might be able to come up with an overall difference of 3,000'.

In reality most Denali ascents take place in June, and at that time of year it looks like the altimeter elevation would typically be quite close to the true elevation.

[TallGrass]

No, why is Peter saying Denali whose P.Alt never reaches 23k is higher than Everest's which never dips below 27k? Even if just ambiguous wording, there's 4k+ difference minimum.

[ChrisinAZ]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to what mountain is the furthest from the center of the earth in the contiguous 48 states? Hint: it's a rather nice hike, and not somewhere most people think of as "mountainous"...

[Scott P]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to what mountain is the furthest from the center of the earth in the contiguous 48 states?

I would think that it would be Whitney, though your clue seems to indicate otherwise.

[jdorje]

No, why is Peter saying Denali whose P.Alt never reaches 23k is higher than Everest's which never dips below 27k? Even if just ambiguous wording, there's 4k+ difference minimum.

Ambiguous wording. He said that Denali is 20k feet but has the same pressure you'd see at 23k feet at Everest. Which actually is fairly significant.

My question is which peak is the farthest from the center of the earth (henceforth called "farthest") in Colorado? Is it Culebra? Surely there's a farther peak further south? It's a good 8 miles to the border.

[jaymz]

I opened this thread and was pleasantly surprised that it was from Mike. This is going to be good...

One would have thought so, but alas...

[martinleroux]

He said that Denali is 20k feet but has the same pressure you'd see at 23k feet at Everest.

But only if you were to climb Denali in February, or November. Or as they say in Yiddish, as di bubbe volt gehat beytsim volt zi gevain mayn zaidah.

[martinleroux]

My question is which peak is the farthest from the center of the earth (henceforth called "farthest") in Colorado? Is it Culebra? Surely there's a farther peak further south? It's a good 8 miles to the border.

Going by the Summitpost calculator it looks like it's Culebra. If there were a 13,906' peak right on the NM border that would be farther from the center, but there's only one peak as high as that between Culebra and the border ("Red Mountain A"), and it's too close to Culebra.

In the other direction, it would have to be a 14,583' peak on the same latitude as Blanca, or an even higher peak farther north. But there's no such peak.

[randalmartin]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to what mountain is the furthest from the center of the earth in the contiguous 48 states? Hint: it's a rather nice hike, and not somewhere most people think of as "mountainous"...

Mauna Kea in Hawaii