Brit Reacts To THE HIGHEST POINT OF EVERY AMERICAN STATE

Brit Reacts To THE HIGHEST POINT OF EVERY AMERICAN STATE
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[@donaldstewart8342]

Colorado's two tallest mountains Mt Massive and Mt Elbert are so close to each other in height that fans of each mountain would repeatedly pile up rocks to try and make their preferred mountain taller.

[@fuct2003]

Same road to both. You can climb both in a day. Massive is a little harder than Elbert.

[@jamesleyda365]

Mt Rainier/Tahoma In Washington State is the highest mountain in the lower 48 states by it prominents or vertical rise.... i believe. It is absolutely magnificent to see in person on a clear day, its AWESOME!!!🤘I can see it from my house 150 or more miles away to the west. Mt Whitney or Pikes Peak has nothing on Rainier. Shasta or Adams are the only ones that come close

[@jamesalexander5623]

Mt. Rainier .... That's what Grace Kelly did her Wedding Night!

[@yugioht42]

Mountains are created two ways via a plate sliding under another and resulting folds create mountains, or via ash building up by volcanic activity. New York has the rare glacial cravings where prehistoric ice craved out valleys and all of it to create land that seems higher. Hawaii is the ash build method but the mainland was almost entirely former tectonics.

[@propertylady57]

My son, cousin, good friend and I are taking a trip to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire the first week of October. We usually go to the Smoky Mountains at the end of October but my son couldn’t get off. We love to take a trip to see the fall colors. They say in New Hampshire the best time to see the colors at their peak is the last week of September, first week of October. We hope we are lucky enough to see the them at their peak. It’s not guaranteed. I am excited.

[@yugioht42]

A legendary Japanese explorer went up Denali unfortunately he never made it. The man was the first to solo the North Pole, he climbed every major mountain except Denali solo. The explorers club offered him membership which he accepted. It is believed he fell off the mountain somewhere and is lost as his body was never found nor recovered. It’s a search ongoing to this day as with others that have gone missing on the mountain. We know most of his progress as he documented everything in his journal. It was very meticulous down to exact times and what equipment he used.

[@mildredpierce4506]

The mountain in Washington state is supposed to be an active volcano, but I have never heard of it erupting. I have only heard of Mount Saint Helens when it erupted back in 1980.

[@xenotbbbeats7209]

Mt. Rainier is gorgeous. Its beauty is only rivaled by Mt. Fuji in Japan.

[@Smoothbuttermilk]

I think the mountain in Alaska is now called Mt. Denali. It used to be called Mt. McKinley after president McKinley. Denali is what the natives originally named it and as it should be it now has its original name.

[@ScottMayys]

No the racist Democrats changed it

[@michaeltipton5500]

Glad I live in Washington and get to see Mt Rainier all the time.

[@beaujac311]

It's beautiful but I would always be thinking it could explode at anytime.

[@michaeltipton5500]

@@beaujac311 I've lived here nearly 50 years.

[@mocrg]

Mount Whitney and Death Valley are 135 miles apart, the highest and lowest points in the continental US and in California.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Kabir, there's a weather station at the summit of Mount Washington. One of the jobs of the newbies is to go out to collect readings from the instruments. There are famous videos of people fighting the wind gusts. Here's one : The windiest place on planet Earth | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond - BBC One

[@jaysverrisson1536]

The drive to the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island is epic, and the terrain on top looks more like Mars than anywhere on Earth. Nearby Mauna Loa only about 100 ft. shorter than Mauna Kea, but is far more massive overall. The slopes of Mauna Loa are so gradual it looks (deceptively) more like an immense hill than a mountain, but is still awe-inspiring. Both are shield volcanoes that, fortunately, are less volatile than the explosive strato volcanoes of the western continental U.S. like Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood.

[@reneehomen2226]

My state of Massachusetts has everything. We have mountains and the ocean and bays. Were called The Bay State where R.I. is The Ocean State.

[@justintrefney1083]

Remember these are all hights above sea level.

[@theblackbear211]

The other fun thing is the concept of "Prominence" which, generally speaking describes how much higher a feature is than the surrounding area. Colorado had a lot of high peaks, but most don't actually have that much prominence. Of course, the poster child for this discussion is "Mount Sunflower."

[@vortexathletic]

There are a lot of ways to define a mountain; but in America at least, it has to be at least 2,000ft in elevation to be considered a mountain 🏔️

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Actually the “active” volcano in Washington State is Mount St. Helens which had a major eruption in 1980 and has had smaller eruptions since. Rainier is the third most likely to experience an eruption after Kilauea in Hawaii and Rainier’s sister Mount St. Helens. What separates Mount Rainier from many other volcanoes are the glaciers and snowfields. With approximately 26 glaciers, the mountain is the most heavily glaciated peak across the continental U.S. The major concern with a future eruption is the heat from the explosion would rapidly melt the snow and ice creating a “lahar.” This is an Indonesian word for volcanic mudflows and are far more hazardous and deadly. The USGS says that lahars “look and behave like flowing concrete, and their impact forces destroy most human-made structures.” Based on geological evidence, lahars have reached the Puget Sound region at least every 500 to 1,000 years. They are a bigger threat than an eruption, although a major eruption like Mount St. Helens would not only trigger the deadly lahars, but also put out a huge ash cloud. The most recent recorded volcanic activity was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in 1858, 1870, 1879, 1882, and 1894 as well. Additionally, the Smithsonian Institution's volcanism project records the last volcanic eruption as 1450 CE. Seismic monitors have been placed in Mount Rainier National Park and on the mountain itself to monitor activity. An eruption could be deadly for all living in areas within the immediate vicinity of the volcano and effects from an eruption could be noticed from Vancouver, British Columbia to San Francisco, California because of the massive amounts of ash blasting out of the volcano into the atmosphere.

[@jamesalexander5623]

My Nephew Eric climbed Mt Whitney in California! I climbed Mt. Vesuvius in Italy when i was there in 1977!

[@1wwtom]

Years ago while attending a seminar for my company in Denver Colo. we drove up to Pikes Peak which is 14,115 feet tall. There is a visitor center up there with a restaurant and souvenir shop, The drive up the twisting road with no side protection was pretty scary. You could see for Miles and Miles from up there!

[@nazcahari]

There is a movie I saw a long time ago called, “The Englishman Who went up a Hill, but came down a Mountain “ I think it had Hugh Grant. Basically, this small Welsh village / town wanted to be put on a map. They had a very large hill nearby and thought they could turn it into a mountain and be put on a map. They were like 20 ft short of being called a mountain, so they kept dumping buckets of dirt on top until it became a mountain. And then they got put on the map. The movie is meh 😑, but for some reason I remembered it. I guess it’s that long ass name it was given. 😂

[@davidhampson302]

I grew up looking at Mount Marcy every day in Newcomb NY. The native Americans in the area called the mountain Tahawus which means Cloudsplitter.

[@johnalden5821]

I've been to 10 or so of these high points, including climbing Mt. Katahdin in Maine, Mt. Washington in NH, Mt. Rogers in Virginia and Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina. I have seen Gannett Peak close up when hiking in the Wind River Range in Wyoming, but no way was I prepared to try to climb that.

[@zacharyricords8964]

I live near mt davis in PA, and i wouldnt have guessed it was the tallest. Northern PA has so many mountains, and the PA grand canyon. I went to New Hampshire for vacation as a kid. We went to the top of Mt Washington where they measured the 231mph winds. I didnt know that till now, but i have a vivid memory of it being extremely windy and being able to lean slight into the wind and stay up. I was a small kid though.

[@DixieRailProductions4018]

I’ve actually been to Mt Mitchell, North Carolina. The view from the summit is extraordinarily breathtaking. It’s an amazing experience. 10/10, highly recommended. 👍

[@TheBuglemouthBass]

There's no official definition of what exactly constitutes a mountain, but as a geogeek the one I've heard the most and subscribe to myself is 1000 feet in prominence. In other words, it rises 1000 feet above the surrounding terrain. Prominence is what most people are drawn to visually, not pure elevation.

[@teressareeves5856]

The major reason why the middle part of the U.S. (also Canada) doesn't have many noticeable high points is that the area was actually an interior seaway for millions of years. It's hard to imagine how much silt was laid down through the ages until you get to areas where erosion has removed tons of land & left some surprising landscapes. Without that very ancient seaway, it would have been much harder for the millenia of crossings of peoples and animals.

[@jimgreen5788]

Kabir, the Illinois high point is about 75 mi./120.6km west of where I live. In case you've not heard of the Appalachian Trail, it's a hiking trail that goes from Georgia all the way to Mt. Katahdin, ME-- The reason Lake Placid was mentioned in the NY section is because it's the tiny town that hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics, during which the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game was played. Being near Flagstaff, the AZ high point is very close to Grand Canyon's South Rim. Speaking of sleeping halfway up the MT entry, rock climbers who attempt Half Dome in Yosemite N.P. normally take 3-5 days, and thus some time, some genius invented a sort of tent which can be hung from the rock wall. Yikes! Re. the UT entry in the Uintah Mtns.--it's you-IN-tuh, rather than oo-IN-tuh. "Close, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."😉 Mauna Kea is also known, because of its altitude, is high enough to have snow for skiing--in tropical Hawai'i. How's that for bizarre? You were talking, after his video ended, about Denali. Rather than standing at the summit, it would be far less costly, and dangerous, to get a fly-around from the nearby tiny town of Talkeetna (tal-KEET-nuh).

[@gotham61]

I have been at the base of Denali, but obviously never climbed it. With very long climbs they often have established flat areas called camps where you can put up a tent and sleep during a climb. With a huge mountain like Everest there is a Base Camp (actually two, one on each side of the mountain) where climbers will spend a week acclimatizing to the altitude, then four camps going up towards the summit where you sleep on the way up and back. On Everest, more people lose their lives on the way back down after summiting when they are tired and disoriented, than while going up.

[@pjschmid2251]

Truly, the view of Mount Denali from the base is much better than trying to climb it and look down. That’s the type of climb that’s very technical and only for very very expert climbers. People die trying to climb that mountain. But if you’re ever there, and you get really lucky, you will be able to see the mountain. It makes its own weather, so it’s only visible one or two days a month.

[@gotham61]

The reason a place like Nebraska's high point Panorama Point looks so flat, is because the entire state is already quite high in elevation at an average of 2600 feet.

[@beaujac311]

When I think of those areas I think of the Clint Eastwood movie High Plains Drifter.

[@timothycook2917]

Even though I grew up in California and live in Idaho, both places with high mountains, the only place where I have physically stood that is mentioned in this video is the Hawkeye Point in Iowa.

[@ademas]

Mt. Hood is stunning. Of course, I'm biased, I was born here, and I see it every day.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Kabir, I've been to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. It's 14,110 feet tall. You can drive up to it, or you can take the cograil. Every year there's a car race held there, from bottom to top.

[@theblackbear211]

Mount Rainier last erupted over 2000 years ago. What makes it so potentially dangerous is that the historical data shows that it is prone to cataclysmic events. (Think of Mount St. Helens - just to the south.) With its close proximity to major urban centers, it is a danger.

[@tammyharris6645]

I think the first ones were mounds

[@jeffking4176]

Technically, TAUM SAUK Mountain is part of the greater OZARK Plateau. AKA: The Ozarks. 📻🙂

[@TheArkyCrew]

I grew up at the bottom of Mount Magazine in Arkansas

[@theblackbear211]

The photograph that they show when they talk about Mount Whitney, is definitely NOT Mount Whitney. I've seen this show up on a couple of other videos.

[@williamlilleston1595]

I do not know this for a fact, however I was told once that to "qualify" as a mountain the elevated landscape must have a TIMBER LINE. That is to be high enough that nothing grows above I think it is 10 000 feet. However, as with just about anything, this is subject to opinion.

[@bonniejohnstone]

Colorado has ‘58’ 14,000 ft or above mountains, the most 14er’s.

[@dominiccangelosi1876]

Generally a to call something a mountain is to be at least 1,000 feet above sea level!

[@jeffdavis2648]

Mountains are either named by whoever climbs it, settled near it, or native tribes that once lived in the area before.... You know. Black Mountain in my state is named after coal

[@tinagarcia3571]

i live at 4,700 ft in Or. no big deal, i use to live in Denver Col.

[@powdermonkey82ndabn67]

By technical definition a Mountain must have a point, within 2 miles of the summit, and 2000 feet lower elevation.

[@dakotasequin5984]

A 100ft hill could have a higher elevation than a 1000ft mountain based off of how high the mountain starts at the base vs the hill.

[@JoDean1545]

I live in Colorado and we have 58 peaks at 14,000 feet😊

[@HFVidShotz]

Many persons visit highest points and get the t-shirt.🎉

[@beaujac311]

Spruce Knob, Clingman's Dome and Brasstown Bald are the more interesting names of the highest points in each state. They are more interesting than a name that starts with mount.

[@revgurley]

That "hill" in Florida is barely a hill. Also why most houses in Florida don't have basements - the water table is too high.

[@kennethfrawley]

Mate, you should know this, really. To be called a mountain, it must measure a minimum of 1000 feet (304.8 meters) BTB: in 1995, Hugh Grant played an Englishman trapped in Wales, whilst he was trying to measure it, as to determine whether is was a mountain of a hill.

[@paulclark3561]

These are all based on sea level, not the actual height from the surrounding area.

[@amateuryoutuber]

You have watched this video before like a year ago, I guess you forgot.

[@williambranch4283]

Kansas ... bwahaha ;-)

[@stevepalmberg5905]

Every state has a hill

[@brosbarth5833]

I somehow missed Florida what's the time stamp

[@scotto5426]

Hill or mountain? We'll, drag a buck up 1 and opinions vary

[@DennisRabidue]

This post is very deceiving , the measurements are from ocean levels . So a two thousand foot elevation may only be a few hundred feet above the surrounding area

[@NurseEmilie]

God made mountains. He could have made them as they are, without any plates having to move.

[@bethking7348]

Why list lowest points? This is pretty silly

[@bonniejohnstone]

Point of reference, comparing one State to another. Not everyone will suspect that a flat State has a higher elevation than a mountain because it’s inclining up towards the front-range of the Rocky Mountains where I live a which is 5000 ft.

[@MrWhit30]

"Mountain" is a relative term, I'm not sure if there is an official definition that everyone agrees to. Kinda depends on the surrounding terrain. If there is significant prominence then the locals usually call it a mountain. If is not so grand it might just be a hill, but a hill can be a mountain to people who live in a relatively flat place. Mountains can get their name in many ways. From what the natives called it, the first dude to survey it, or own it, or explore it, a famous person, an animal, a prominent feature, or just what the locals who settled there first happened to call it and nobody really knows why. Mountains can be formed by tectonic uplift and folding, by volcanism, or by the erosion of surrounding softer rocks by glacial ice, water, or even wind.