... I finished CA 2000' some time ago, and I'm essentially done with NV 2000'. The only sense in which I'm not done with NV 2000' is that I haven't yet gone...
Prominence folks--here's a revised version of the World Top 50 list I posted last year, attached as HTML. Many of the revisions are due to Eberhard Jurgalski...
(David) ... Great stuff. Looks like a 11,719' foot cut point. K2 is has the highest saddle of the top 50, at 15,748'. List follows in plaintext for those too...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 5, 2001 3:10 am
Hello from Adam Helman, Would it be OK with David M if I either put in a link to his list from the prominence section of cohp.org ... or even reproduce his...
Adam--thanks. You can reproduce the list if you like, as long as you put "as of 12/5/01" on it somewhere. The list is still in progress, and as I mentioned...
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Gullskey@...
Dec 5, 2001 8:20 pm
Hello, over there ! There are some more time consuming things I have to do in the next weeks. First I wanted (later in collaboration with David M.) present the...
A great list from Eberhard. 2 notes: I'm new to this list, so I was confused by the last columns of the table: AC EU AM DC. What do these stand for? And what...
(Peter Ridges) ... (Andy) Believe some of these relate to Eberhards mountain classification methods, best for him to do the explaining. ... We have debated the...
(Dan Robbins) ... (Andy) Congrats to Dan for finding a major goof in the ID prominence list. Not 100% sure, but preliminary investigation backs Dan up here, ...
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Dec 6, 2001 5:11 pm
(Andy) ... Yes, and it's nice that more people are getting involved so that more eyes are available to check lists. The county HP lists are getting more...
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Dec 6, 2001 5:11 pm
(Peter Ridges) ... This is the interpretation you get from the Noah's Ark method, if the parent is the high point of the island that you connect to. At least...
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Gullskey@...
Dec 6, 2001 5:53 pm
Hi ! I only answered Peter, but now I realized that the "parents"-suggestion is nearly the same idea like my separations with the grade of Independence of a...
Historical note: In July and August of 2000 there was an extended e-mail thread about how to define a prominence parent. This group was started as a result of...
Thanks to all who have written on this subject, especially Edward for his detailed review. A while ago I started annotating my copy of Alan Dawson's book with...
I like Peter's rule, although as Edward noted, the PIP rule is a more standard mathematical concept. I won't say much about it now except to say that ridges...
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Dec 7, 2001 5:49 pm
... Ron T. and I went around on the Washington vs. Mitchell issue, he is convinced that Mitchell must be the parent of Washington because they are both on the...
David & Eberhard, Please note that Kinabalu is in Sabah, a state of Malaysia, not Indonesia. I 'should' know as it's one of only 2 I've visited . Phil Cooper ...
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Gullskey@...
Dec 7, 2001 7:08 pm
Ooops ! Thank you, Phil for your correction. I hate doing such errors... Eberhard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Jerry & Betty Brekhus
Brekhus@...
Dec 7, 2001 11:44 pm
... Of Wyoming's Fifty Finest, I have 6: Francs Peak Medicine Bow Peak Mount Washburn Whiskey Peak Heart Mountain Windy Mountain I have been on three others,...
I am sorry to be a nay-sayer, but this list far more effectively demonstrates my disenchantment with the concept of prominence than did any of my previous...
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Gullskey@...
Dec 8, 2001 3:28 pm
Well, I really have less time at the mo, but this is to interesting and important for myself, that I need to comment. Lists with "pure" altitude are not...
... No, thanks for the politeness, but it's my carelessness (and inadequate atlas- I've ordered a better one!). I haven't yet seen a N America prominence list...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 10, 2001 3:56 am
This list is, thanks to the approval of David Metzler, on the cohp.org website in the prominence section thereof: http://www.cohp.org/prominence/world50.html ...
(Bob Bolton) ... (Andy) I think a good comparison to start with is against a height based "worlds best" list Worlds best mountains By height By Pure...
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Gullskey@...
Dec 10, 2001 7:01 pm
Hi ! Let me present the TOP 15 by all the three possibilities , in the third one becomes clear, that Mont Blanc is the highest mountain of the subcontinent...
Andy Martin December 10, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: [prominence] what about K2 ? ... We're ... I'm fairly new to this Group so missed Bob's list. However, we've...
... (David M) I don't think this is correct. For, once one follows the Missouri/Hudson divide to the Continental divide (the triple point is in Glacier NP), ...
All, I thought Elbrus was the highest mountain in Europe, not Mont Blanc. That part of Russia is in Europe, I thought. Can someone enlighten me? Is there...
