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What's the highest you've ever been above sea level?
(it's probably a hill, mountain or elevated city)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 6:45 a.m. | #
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Cliff House, Mt Mansfield, Vermont (1105m)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 6:50 a.m. | #
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Quito (2824m)
Mel | 27.01.21 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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2,151 m: Donner Pass, California
MartinO'Holcombe | 27.01.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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Col de l'Iseran, France (2770m)
AG | 27.01.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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Ridge above Mawenzi Tarn, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa (4430m)
Greg | 27.01.21 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Mount Fuji, 3776m
Novaelius | 27.01.21 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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I thought it would be Kinder, but going through the Standedge Tunnel would beat that *if* the 645' I have for it is correct. It doesn't really compare to those fancy foreign heights.
dg writes: It's Kinder. Standedge is 645 feet.
Sarah | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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Aiguille du Midi, France (3,842 m)
Abe | 27.01.21 - 7:37 a.m. | #
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Snowden. Already covered. Trips abroad have mostly been coastal.
Putters | 27.01.21 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Southern peak of Iztaccihuatl, Mexico (5200m). Less of a feat than it seems given the car park is at 4000m!
Will | 27.01.21 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Off the top of my head, probably Jungfraujoch viewing platform, 3,572 metres. There's a train which takes your there.
Jonathan | 27.01.21 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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Mount Teide, Tenerife (3,715 m)
Kevin | 27.01.21 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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The top of Tharpu Chuli (Tent Peak), Annapurna Region, Nepal ~ 5,663 m
Andrew | 27.01.21 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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3,713m (12,183') on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado in a car.
Richard | 27.01.21 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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4,783 m, underground in Galera tunnel on the train between Lima and Huancayo.
Betterbee | 27.01.21 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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2,667m, Telluride, Colorado
Waterhouse | 27.01.21 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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A pass on the way between Lhasa and Xigatse, 5,300m.
Martin | 27.01.21 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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Mount Teide Tenerife (3715m)
Michael | 27.01.21 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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4302m. Pikes Peak, Colorado
Jim | 27.01.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Like Will, for me it's also Iztaccihuatl (5200m). Been up taller mountains (Nevado del Ruiz, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) but not to the top, so I think not as high as 5200m.
Alan | 27.01.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Mcleod Ganj (Dalai Lama’s temple above Dharamsala) 2082 m.
In 1976 I stayed in a hut in Dharamsala for a month while on the old overland hippie trail. From the outside loo there was a panoramic vista down to the plains, & behind was the view towards the snow capped Himalayas.
Toni | 27.01.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Lovedale Station on the line to Ooty in Southern India, 2211 M, 7254 ft.
Tony Martin | 27.01.21 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Probably Snowdon.
Sally | 27.01.21 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Addis Ababa airport (I have only transited through it) - 2,334m above sea level.
Friar Sven | 27.01.21 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Mt Teide in Tenerife - 3715m
Amanda | 27.01.21 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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When in Switzerland with friends : Allalinhorn, 4027 m
Thorum | 27.01.21 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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Probably Oteller, Uludağ, Turkey 1,870m
John Leach | 27.01.21 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Between Arbaroba and Asmara, Eritrea (2430m)
Jack | 27.01.21 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs 4302m
Mark | 27.01.21 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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A few hundred meters above Anapurna base camp,say 4,400m (or 2 miles 996 yards in dg units)
peter | 27.01.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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Another one who has ridden the cable car to the summit of the Aiguille du Midi, France (3,842 m) here.
Steve | 27.01.21 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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And the Aiguille du Midi again: 3842m
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 27.01.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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I've been to the Mile High city of Denver, Colorado and seen the plaque outside the State Capitol which marks exactly one mile above sea level. I've seen the Colorado Rockies play baseball at Coors Field, but I sat below the row of specially coloured seats that are a mile high, so the best I can claim is 1609m.
Michael Churchill | 27.01.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, 3572m
Jimbo | 27.01.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Gilman's Point, Tanzania, 5,685m
JonF | 27.01.21 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Probably Sulphur Mountain, near Banff, Alberta (2451m).
Baldassaro | 27.01.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Mount Toubkal in Morocco which is 4,167m
Flare | 27.01.21 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Another Aiguille du Midi, France (3,842 m)
ChrisW | 27.01.21 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Also Mount Teide in Tenerife (3715m)
Frank F | 27.01.21 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Jungfraujoch station 3454m
davews | 27.01.21 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Mount Teide, 3715 metres according to Kevin, Michael and Amanda.
Lorenzo | 27.01.21 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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I never knew that Nairobi was so elevated - but I wont be going back in a rush! Same as Amanda above, I suspect, Mt Teide in Tenerife - 3715m, but much lower at the base for me.
PJS | 27.01.21 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Cuyoc pass (5000m) on Huayhuash Trek in the Andes.
OverTheHills | 27.01.21 - 9:03 a.m. | #
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Corviglia near St.Moritz, Switzerland - 2486m
David | 27.01.21 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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Faneque Rock/Cliff, Gran Canaria 1027m
Sara | 27.01.21 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Snowdon. Didn't cheat and take the train, walked up.
Wole | 27.01.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA 1,917m
Johnny Topaz | 27.01.21 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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Yet another Aguille de Midi 3842m.
Andy S | 27.01.21 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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Pike's Peak for me too. A short run revealed how thin the air was.
Man of Kent | 27.01.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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And another Aiguille du Midi.
Pete_LL | 27.01.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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3454 m, Jungfraujoch station (+ whatever I climbed afterwards there).
Jochem | 27.01.21 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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Jungfraujoch, Swiss Alps 3571 m.
Herbof | 27.01.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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I think the top of the Weissenstein, outside Solothurn, Switzerland (1395m). You can get halfway there by a Bern tram, many many miles from Bern.
James | 27.01.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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3583m, the upper viewpoint (but not the summit, Mt Teide, Tenerife, Spain.
The Banbury Man | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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2,950m-ish at the Zugspitze restaurant in Germany. Only the mountain climbers go up to the peak at 2,962. It's rather odd to see them with ropes and gear against the rock face immediately outside the floor to ceiling window when having your tea.
NickW | 27.01.21 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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My record is 2965m at the Col Prafleuri, the highest point on the Chamonix-Zermatt trail. (Just pipping the Zugspitze on the Austro-German border at 2962m)
timbo | 27.01.21 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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Stok Kangri in India. 6,153m above sea-level, says Wikipedia. Other sources give 6,114m or 6,121m: above 20,000ft but below Mt McKinley, in any case.
HTFB | 27.01.21 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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Around Colca Canyon in Peru, the mountain passes there get up to 4900m
Mikey C | 27.01.21 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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In 2006 I did a walking holiday in the Queyras alps. And that's pretty high.
Except then I remembered a few years later I got a train up a mountain in Switzerland. And I don't think I can beat that. So the Jungfraujoch - 3,463m above sea level.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Snowdon (1085m) for me.
Harry | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Although I did go to the Observatory viewing platform on the Jungfraujoch and that's 3,572m
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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5421m. Chacaltaya, Bolivia. Lovely views, used to be a ski resort before all the snow melted.
scrumpy | 27.01.21 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Not sure but I lived in the Rockie Mountains for many years and so it's probably somewhere along there or crossing the Sierra Nevada into California.
Cornish Cockney | 27.01.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Thorong La Pass. Nepal. 5,416m.
the other eric | 27.01.21 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, 4095m for dawn, watched sunset that day stood in the sea 0m
TomH | 27.01.21 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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The "base" of Teide, somewhere aroung 2200m.
stevekeiretsu | 27.01.21 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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Snowdon, 1085m. Did cheat and took the train.
Alex | 27.01.21 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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A couple of years ago I achieved an ambition to climb to the top of Mont Canigou in the Pyrenees in the South of France, 2,785m. I don't think I could do it again after the recent drop in exercise.
Dave | 27.01.21 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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I've been up to the top of Sulphur Mountain in Albera too but my research says it is 2256m.
popartist | 27.01.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Mexico City at 2,310m. (I also went part-way up a mountain while in Mexico, but can't recall which one.)
Alan S | 27.01.21 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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2,120m, Mount Pilatus in Switzerland (by the rack railway)
the wub | 27.01.21 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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I thought it would the North Everest Base Camp (5150m) but, like Martin, I travelled by road between Lhasa and Shigatse while in Tibet, so I may well have been over his 5300m pass, too. It was 20 years ago so I can’t remember the exact route !
CJS | 27.01.21 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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2,291 metres, Mount Nguaruhoe
Nameless 14 | 27.01.21 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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Probably somewhere in the Denali range in Alaska, but no idea how high that was. Let's go for a conservative 3k.
commonliner | 27.01.21 - 10:32 a.m. | #
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Cime de Caron, France (3195m)
Mike | 27.01.21 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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4170m, Cuesta de Lipan,
Jujoy, Argentina
PeterB | 27.01.21 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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4328 metres, Laguna Verde, a salt lake in the Atacama region, Chile, 1997.
JonathanC | 27.01.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Aspen Colorado at 2438m during a business trip one summer in the 80's. I also went to the base of the nearby Maroon Bells but I don't know how much higher that was. No mountain climbing for me, as I am too much of a wuss!
Colin Lennon | 27.01.21 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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2427 Metres Furka Pass Switzerland
JOHN LISSAMAN | 27.01.21 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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Aiguille du Midi, 3842m
Malcolm of Kent | 27.01.21 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Cable car to near the summit of Mont Blanc. The top station claims 3842m above sea level. It departs from a large car park so no physical exertion was involved.
Boneyboy | 27.01.21 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Another Mount Teide (3583m) - had forgotten about it until I saw other people's comments, and surprised it beat other places I had been to.
Peter of London | 27.01.21 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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Excluding planes, the highest I have been Murodo on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route at 2500m
Robert | 27.01.21 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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I think it's 4,215m, which is the highest point of the Inca Trail
Eric | 27.01.21 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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I remember driving in California - near Mt Lassen I think - and passing a sign saying 11000ft - about 3300m. The car was distinctly losing power, presumably because of the thinner air. I've also been in high places in the US and Canadian Rockies and in Austria, but it's hard to get the elevation data instantly. I've climbed Cairn Gorm (1245m) in Scotland several times.
Peter | 27.01.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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About 4500m on a road in the Andes between Nazca and Cusco in Peru. I remember getting very light headed and tired due to altitude sickness.
About a week later on a different road between Cusco and Lake Titicaca, the altitude was about 4300m yet I felt much better, must have acclimatised.
Neil | 27.01.21 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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About 2300m. Skiing in Alpe d'Huez
H SE18 | 27.01.21 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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As expensive trip up to the Schilthorn, otherwise known as the Piz Gloria, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". 2970metres.
Mike | 27.01.21 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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Johannesburg about 1555m
Caroline | 27.01.21 - 11:50 a.m. | #
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Another one for Mount Teide, Tenerife.
Richard | 27.01.21 - 11:50 a.m. | #
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Probably Mount Aragats in Armenia, though with a guide and annoyingly I don't remember which peak we actually ascended. I have a feeling it was the second-highest, western peak which would make my personal record 3,995 metres. On the other hand, if it was one of the two lower peaks, then my record would be Tochal outside Tehran, at 3,963 metres.
BWB | 27.01.21 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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Another Pikes Peak in the US Rockies - 4302m.
Dave | 27.01.21 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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Klein Matterhorn Bergbahnstation - 3,883m
Pinnerite | 27.01.21 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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Parque El Cajas in Ecuador about 4200 metres. Lowest Dead Sea around -400 metres.
Martin | 27.01.21 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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My highest point was on some frozen, Godforsaken mountain pass, in either Turkey or Iran. I was motorbike pillion passenger, in 1983, doing the overland route. The mountain passes were somewhere between Istanbul, and Quetta in Pakistan. It was January. What was I thinking of...
Neesi | 27.01.21 - 12:26 p.m. | #
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Trail Ridge pass driving in Colorado Rocky Mountain Park - 3713m.
Jon | 27.01.21 - 12:37 p.m. | #
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Uhuru Peak, Kilimanjaro (5895m)
James C | 27.01.21 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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3883m, Klein Matterhorn (Europe's highest point accessible by cable car, so a bit of a cheat)
miker | 27.01.21 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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About 3000m in the Pyrenees; Parque nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido. Didn't get to the top of Monte Perdido (3355m) because I felt ill with altitude sickness. My companions went up and collected me on the way back down. It was still an amazing experience.
Bob L-S | 27.01.21 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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Pla de les Taràntules, Montserrat, Catalunya, 1237 metres
Jim Harte | 27.01.21 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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Many years ago (1979) took the Aguille du Midi cable car to a viewing platform about 3800m above sea level. The air was thin.Views over the Alps towards Italy amazing. In UK managed Ben Nevis back in 1972.
Bernard | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 2:00 p.m. | #
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Another vote for Klein Matterhorn at 3883m.
Chris | 27.01.21 - 2:01 p.m. | #
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Gaustatoppen - mountain near Rjukan in Norway 1883m. Tiddler compared to the above.
Chris | 27.01.21 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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Top Station of the Teide Teleferico (where it was too icy to wander any further) - 3555m
That also counts as the greatest vertical distance I've "climbed" (1199m bottom to top) but Fairview Mtn, Alberta counts as a 1144m hike.
martin in canada | 27.01.21 - 2:29 p.m. | #
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Lake Toma (2345m)
Lmm | 27.01.21 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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The one I'm certain of is Schiehallion in Scotland which is 1,083m. But when I was a child I went up a mountain (not one of the really high ones) in southern Bavaria and that may well beat it. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was now.
Anders | 27.01.21 - 3:21 p.m. | #
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Hills to the west of Boulder, Colorado. ~1,800m
Danington Nowzrus | 27.01.21 - 3:33 p.m. | #
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I've done summer hiking around Avoriaz that would get up to 2000m.
I have probably been higher skiing in Val D'Isere, but I can't find altitude data for all the bunny slopes.
Chz | 27.01.21 - 3:36 p.m. | #
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Pike’s Peak for me too.
Richard Thomas | 27.01.21 - 3:44 p.m. | #
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It's possible I was somewhere higher on the trip, but I'd say Lake Louise, Alberta, which is 1741m.
martin | 27.01.21 - 3:53 p.m. | #
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3,466m at Pointe Helbronner above Courmayeur in the shadow of Mont Blanc just before skiing down to Chamonix - The Vallée Blanche - the most terrifying ski run I have ever done (you're on your own over a crevasse field at one point!).
Ken | 27.01.21 - 4:05 p.m. | #
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I just topped 5000m when walking in Ladakh, India
Huw | 27.01.21 - 5:00 p.m. | #
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Somewhere going up to Mardi Himal in Nepal. Between 5000 and 5500m
EH | 27.01.21 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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Another one for the Jungfraujoch. It was -20 (and with another 8 degrees of wind chill on top) when I was there.
I hadn't realised that Mount Teide would have beaten it. Unfortunately it was closed due to snow and high winds for the whole of the week we spent in Tenerife.
2d53 | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 6:10 p.m. | #
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Cusco to Puno railway, 4313m
Ken | 27.01.21 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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The lookout at Cruz Loma in Quito.
(3945m)
It's easy to get winded there.
Scott Denny | 27.01.21 - 7:19 p.m. | #
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As far as I can work out, 3676m on the highest peak at Winter Park ski-area
Al__S | 27.01.21 - 7:37 p.m. | #
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Looks like the winner was time we drove through Millner pass in the Rockies elevation 3,279 m.
Andrew | 27.01.21 - 8:12 p.m. | #
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Giewont in the Polish Tatras, at least 1728m (I don’t remember which summit).
Sprout Eater | 27.01.21 - 8:15 p.m. | #
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The slopes of Sairecabur, Chile/Bolivia, 5286m. The actual volcano is 5970m high, but we gave up halfway (it was hard to breathe at that altitude)
Moritz | 27.01.21 - 9:18 p.m. | #
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Another vote for Kilimanjaro at 5895m. We were told it was an easier climb than Mont Blanc (which I grew up next to but never climbed), because the atmosphere goes rather higher near the equator than in Switzerland, so fewer altitude sickness issues.
David C | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:23 p.m. | #
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Gornergrat, Switzerland (3106m)
Ewan | 27.01.21 - 9:55 p.m. | #
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It's possible I went up Teide in Tenerife, but I don't recall, so I'll go for Jungfraujoch. I know I took the train up there in 1989, so must have got to the station at least. If I'd known it was the highest point I'd ever reach I would have paid more attention.
Wayne | 27.01.21 - 9:56 p.m. | #
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The summit of Imet Gogo in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia: 3947 metres asl.
We now have plans for an Annapurna Circuit (max 5416m asl), when travel permits!
Kirsty | 27.01.21 - 11:13 p.m. | #
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Klein Matterhorn observation platform at 3,883m, followed by a “hill” outside Thimphu in Bhutan, at a mere 3,000 m or so.
Robert | 28.01.21 - 4:39 a.m. | #
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My Kenya’s Point Lenana (4,985m)
Andrew | 28.01.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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A relatively modest submission here - Helvellyn at 950m!
Nico Hogg | 28.01.21 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Cime de la Bonette in the Alps at 2,860m
Mark | 28.01.21 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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The Vitznau-Rigi Railway summit at 1797 metres above sea level near Lake Lucerne,
Brian | 28.01.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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I once had lunch at a restaurant on top of Sandia Peak in New Mexico. That's 3200M.
jmc | 28.01.21 - 2:44 p.m. | #
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It seems I’m the third person who’s been up Iztaccihuatl in Mexico. 5200 metres.
Gary Denness | Homepage | 28.01.21 - 4:23 p.m. | #
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The Teleferiqo above Quito, and about an hour’s walk onwards. Best guess, a little above 4000m.
Robert Butlin | 28.01.21 - 5:49 p.m. | #
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A day late, and a dollar short, but I too add myself to the Kilimanjaro crew, having summited to the Uhuru Peak back in Oct 2010. A lifetime ago - and part of an amazing charity team. Fond memories.
Jordan D | 29.01.21 - 12:28 a.m. | #
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Jungfraujoch observatory 3572m
James | 29.01.21 - 6:20 a.m. | #
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Aconcagua, but didn't make summit so only 6050m ish. I'll go back at some point!
Rachel Clarke | 29.01.21 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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