(Paul Klenke, email to Adam) ... Per Adam, Scafell and Snowden are 2K, and Paul easily clears the bar. Believe he hails from John Ropers neck of the woods - NW...
Thanks, Papa Bear! I have re-generated and expanded part of the view west from Mount Washington, using better DEM and gazetteer data, which I hope answer the...
(Eberhard - private email - youngest to do the 7 summits) ... (Andy) Hope so. I'd be keen to know if this happens. (John Roper - private email) ... Right, I'm...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 5, 2005 6:43 pm
Hello prominence afficionados, cc: Dale This article has appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette, a newspaper with a 110,000 copy...
Full text of the article Adam mentioned follows. Dave Phillips did a nice job, though I wish he'd passed along some of the hiking accomplishments that were...
Hello, My friend Adam Helman suggested I contact you with this question. I recently did Doi Inthanon, Thailand's highpoint and have done the highpoint of...
From info below, Vietnam HP has 1613 meters prominence, Thailand has 1850. ... (Jonathan) http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/reascent/ASIATO1450m.html HP...
Thanks to Andy and Jonathan for the information on these peaks which are both Ultra's to my surprise. From my GPS reading on Fan Si Pan I have 22 deg 17'...
My 2K count for your Charleston Peak NV panorama follows. I'm probably still missing a few of the smaller ranges. This may be the record holder, or close to...
Hi, After a short business visit to the Bay Area, I used the weekend (plus 1.5 days) to hike 4 Ultras, - White, Jefferson, Arc Dome, and Star Peak. Route...
For someone who had climbed all the P2k peaks and all but 2 of the P1k peaks in their state before seeing the lists, climbing new prominent peaks means either...
Mark Nichols has done a good field evaluation of the saddle for a near 1K peak in AZ with 996'+ minimum prominence. He has pretty well proven this saddle ...
Hello all: I am have thinking about the notion of local prominence, which has been discussed from time to time. A few years ago Andy suggested computing local...
In the last year I've seen Don Palmer's entry in the register of several big prominence peaks. With the help of Mark Adrian, I was able to establish email...
... From: Adam Helman To: Petter.Bjorstad@... ; prominence@yahoogroups.com ; cohp@yahoogroups.com ; sol15761@... Sent: Monday, November...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 14, 2005 7:42 pm
Petter Bjorstad is a prominence-oriented climber from Norway. On a recent business trip to California he found spare time to climb five large prominence peaks...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 14, 2005 7:56 pm
I received a pair of cellular telephone calls this morning from my parents - from inside the Panama Canal on a cruise ship. I noted to them that they were at...
A spirited discussion of prominence is found at http://www.jagged-globe.co.uk/jg/forums/t.php?n=150383 In it we see Jonathan de Ferranti doing a great job of...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 15, 2005 7:42 am
As I described to Jonathan F by private note, there really is NO CONTROVERSY between objective prominence lists and the (wholly subjective) lists preferred by...
... This is a very interesting idea. One point requires clarification. If more than one peak in the prominence island of peak X has "significant" prominence,...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 15, 2005 6:03 pm
Hello Ryan R, You have certainly touched upon a thorn in the side of many a prominence theoretician - and have provided a kernel of insight into how one might...
... If more than ... prominence, how do ... the Mt Lincoln ... not Wheeler ... prominence. Ooh, I was hoping somebody would ask that! I didn't include the ...
Adam, ... prominence ... that is ... Oh, yes, choosing arbitrary constants is definitely a problem. In computer science we call them "magic numbers", since...
Ryan is doing great pioneering work with the Local Prominence concept. ... I'm not sure why a changes in a peaks elevation makes prominence more "unstable"...
Looking at the climbers on http://7summits.com is a good way to turn up people who have climbed many of the World Top 50 by Prominence peaks. Todays find is...
Andy, ... Glad to hear 'em. ... prominence ... Well, plenty of hikers, after finishing the 14ers, then go for the Centennial Peaks, then the 13ers, etc. So...
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Adam Helman
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Nov 16, 2005 7:04 pm
Is not Vinson Massif stricken by the "Mount Elbert Syndrome"? It certainly sits atop a very thick layer of ice, which results in a base elevation that is a...
