cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19364765
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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European here, is pike's peak high?
Alaska has the ten tallest US mountains, with Denali being the most spectacular at 6141 m prominence.
The lower 48 states don’t come anywhere near the majesty of Alaska’s mountains, but they have their little spots of local pride. Pike’s Peak was hailed as a huge mountain during western exploration, with a prominence of 1686 m.
This map is taking the piss.
Mauna Kea at 9330m prominence being absolutely disrespected by you landlubbers
Ftfy.
Denali is about a third taller. Stop making shit up.
What an interesting reaction to facts. I’m assuming you’re a USer, so I’ll break it down for you in freedom bits:
There is a difference between elevation and prominence.
Denali is 20,310 feet in elevation and 20,146 feet in prominence.
Pike’s Peak is 14,115 feet in elevation and 5530 feet in prominence. (5530 feet = 1,685.544 meters.) This difference in prominence makes Denali appear to rise up to nearly four times the height of PP.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_highest_major_summits_of_the_United_States
~~As someone from outside US I prefer the metric answer though~~
Excuse my ignorance, I looked it up because I got confused: "an altitude of 14,115 feet above sea level" is basically 4,300m so yeah
No, it's not particularly high, even compared to all the other mountains in Colorado. What makes it famous is that it stands alone, while the other mountains in the state are all in a mountain range. So it is pretty striking.
It's not a peak mountain but it is a mountain peak.
Don't like being that guy, but man that's an incredibly easy thing to look up.
Some people like engaging with the community, rather than just looking something up.
Ok. For those people, yes it's high.
you're being kind of a dick, dude
I know and from time to time I do, but I also know there is very likely someone here who can give context without it being any effort and since there probably is other people who don't know anything about Pike's peak the answers aren't only for my eyes anyway. If this was a dead topic with nobody browsing these comments or if there was some kind of urgency I'd have chosen another way of getting an answer. Do you care about this long reply? Probably not.