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Chart showing the relationship between the 100 peaks with highest prominence in the world. (In the SVG version, hover over a peak to highlight its parent(s) and click it to view its article.) This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.
1. Denali in Alaska is the highest summit of the United States and all of North America. 2. Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaiʻi is the tallest mountain on Earth as measured from base to summit. 3. Mount Rainier is the highest summit of Washington and the Cascade Range.
Denali is the third most topographicallyifogog prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. The following sortable table comprises the 477 mountain peaks of the United States with at least 3,000 m (9,843 ft) of topographic elevation and at least 500 m (1,640 ft) of topographic prominence. [1]
The table below lists the highest 100 summits with at least 500 m (1,640 ft) prominence, approximating a 7% relative prominence. A drawback of a prominence-based list is that it may exclude well-known or spectacular mountains that are connected via a high ridge to a taller summit, such as Eiger , Nuptse or Annapurna IV .
For example, the world's second-highest mountain is K2 (height 8,611 m, prominence 4,017 m). While Mount Everest 's South Summit (height 8,749 m, prominence 11 m [ 2 ] ) is taller than K2, it is not considered an independent mountain because it is a sub-summit of the main summit (which has a height and prominence of 8,848 m).
Denali. Denali (/ dəˈnɑːli /; [5][6] also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) [7] is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base-to-peak on land, measuring 18,000 ft (5,500 m), [8] With a topographic prominence ...
Most prominent summits. Of the 50 most prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains, only Mount Robson and Mount Elbert exceed 2500 meters (8202 feet) of topographic prominence, seven peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), 31 peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet), and all 50 peaks exceed 1189 meters (3901 feet) of ...
The mountain is located in Mount Rainier National Park about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [4] With a summit elevation of 14,399.6 ft (4,389 m), [5] it is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington, the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States, [6] and the tallest in the Cascade Volcanic Arc.