High Points

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6000 m+

< 3280 ft

3280 ft+

6561 ft+

9,842 ft+

13,123 ft+

16,404 ft+

19,685+

3000 meters+


Bristlecone Pine Forest,
White Mtns

USA - California

 

3000 - 3410 m

9,843 - 11,188

 

Blue Lake, Sierra Nevadas

USA - California

 

3,166 m

10,390

1 night o/n camp

Hungry Packer Lake, Sierra Nevadas

USA - California

 

3,383 m

11,100

2 nights o/n camp

Cuzco

Peru

city

3400m

11,200

 

Pisac

Peru

city / ruins

3400 m

11,200

 

Jharkot

Nepal

village

3500 m

11,482

I think this is where I puked from altitude sickness before heading back down

 

El Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands - Teleferico (Telferico Teide)
Cable car - from 2356 m - 3555 m

Spain - Canary

 

3555 m

7,729 -11,663 ft

 

from Teleferico Teide

Sacsayhuaman

    

3701 m

12,142

  

Muktinath

Nepal

 

3710 m 

12,172

never made it

Puno

Peru

both

3811 m

12,500

  

Lake Titicaca -
Max altitude Taquile Island town

Peru

 

3950 m

12,960

 Lake Titicaca (Env Graffiti)

 

4000 meters+

 

Laguna Miscanti (Wiki)

Chile - Atacama

nature

4120 m

13,517

Day Trip 2 - Atacama salt flats and Lagunas

Nevado del Ruiz - Refugio Arenales
Parque Los Nevados
 Photos_2007 - 187CANON

Colombia

 

4150 m

13,615

 

Laguna Miniques

Chile - Atacama

 

4183 m

13,724

 

Tatio Geysers

Chile - Atacama

 

4200 m

13,780

Day trip 1 - Tatio Geysers & Valle de La Luna

Cotopaxi - Parqueadero

Ecuador

mtn

4500 m

14,763

Don't remember exactly the name of the company used, but I *think* it was the Biking Dutchman.

5000 meters+

Nevado del Ruiz - Refugio del Ruiz
via bus to 4800 m / 15,748 ft
Hiked to ~5125m /
Also VT link - scroll to Day Tour

Colombia

 

5125 m

16,814

Highest elevation point visited

Nevado del Ruiz peak
7th tallest in Colombia (Geonames)
way down the list for S.America (Wiki)
Andes (Wiki)

Colombia

 

5321 m

17,457

reference on total height. did not summit

Annapurna 1 (Wiki)
10th tallest in world

http://peakery.com/yak-Gawa/

Nepal

 

8091 m

26,545

tallest mountain seen with own eyes I'm thinking...unimpressed -- because sits among so many other tall peaks...low prominence

 

Future

SN: Mt. Whitney
(Highest UV+ % scenario)

USA - California

 

4421 m

14,505

 

 

San Jacinto Peak

USA - California

mtn

3302 m

10,834