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Mountains of the World
The World
Mount Everest at 29,035 feet is the highest mountain in the world. It has a 12,000-foot (2.27 ,miles) elevation gain from base to peak.
Nanga Parbat at 26,650 feet is the world’s 9th highest peak, but it’s elevation gain from base to peak is the highest on Earth at almost 23,000 feet or 4.36 miles.
North America
Mauna Kea in Hawaii has the highest rise from base to peak at 33,474 feet, although only 13,795 feet are above the ocean’s surface.
Mauna Loa in Hawaii at 13,677 feet elevation is the most massive mountain the world at 45,981,468,225 cubic miles of volcanic material.
Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet is the highest mountain in North America. It is also known as Denali, the great one with it’s base to peak elevation gain at an astonishing 18,000 feet (3.41 miles), the 2nd highest elevation gain in the world. This means that Mount McKinley appears to be over 1 mile higher than Mount Everest while standing at it’s base looking up!
Mount Thor, located on Canada’s Baffin Island deep in the Acrtic has what is now considered the world’s greatest vertical cliff at 4,500 feet.
The sea-cliffs at Kalaupapa, Hawaii are the highest in the world at 3,315 feet. As a comparison, the Sears Tower in Chicago is just over 1,300 feet tall and nobody wants to fall from that building. The highest cliff is an amazing 3.5 times higher.
El Capitan, a 7,569-foot mountain in Yosemite National Park has a cliff that is about 3000 feet high and is the standard bench-mark climbing area of the world.
New England
Cannon Cliff located at Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire, especially for the east, is an amazing 1000-foot cliff and has been a traditional big-wall training area since the start of rock climbing.
Mount Washington at 6,684 feet is a small mountain by most standards, but this little peak has some of the most dangerous weather in the world and during the winter months it makes a fantastic training area for big mountain climbs. |
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