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Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is located at the boundary between California's Inyo and ...
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Mount Whitney Mount Whitney Serene, Ray, Mark, and I day hiked Mount Whitney on Saturday 8th October 2005. We spent Thursday night at the Cottonwood trailhead (10000 feet) and ...

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Mount Whitney, mountain, eastern California, a peak of the Sierra Nevada. It is the highest mountain in the conterminous United States at 4,418 m/14,494 ft above sea level. Its slope is precipitous on the east, rising abruptly for about 3,350 m (11,000 ft) from Owens Valley. The mountain is named in honour of Josiah Dwight Whitney, American geologist and chief of the expedition that sighted it in 1864.