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Highest and most prominent.

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Regarding peaks in the USA and any other countries. What's the highest peak you have climbed? What's the most prominent peak you have climbed?
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Re: Highest and most prominent.

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Elbert is the tallest.

Rainier is the most prominent.
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Mt Whitney for my most prominent at just over 10,000 ft and my highest. I think this means I need to travel more.
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Chimborazo was the highest (20,561') and most prominent.

Mauna Kea (which has a little more prominence than Chimborazo) was the most prominent of the mountains that I have been to the summit, but I drove most the way up so I can't really count that one as being climbed.
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Kilimanjaro for both
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Re: Highest and most prominent.

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Mt Elbert is the highest
Haleakalā was the most prominent
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Re: Highest and most prominent.

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Orizaba for both
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Overall, Ojos del Salado and Orizaba. In the US, Whitney and Rainier.
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OP said climbed so it would be Elbert for both. Haleakalā is the most prominent summit I’ve been on but I drove all but the last hundred feet.
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Nevada de Toluca for elevation, and Mt Whitney for prominence.

Thanks to Subway near Puebla for not making it Orizaba for both.
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Mont Blanc.

15,403 prominence; 15,774 high
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Re: Highest and most prominent.

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Highest = Elbert
Most prominent (CONUS) = Rainier
Most prominent (OCONUS) = Mauna Kea
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