August 18, 1873 by Charles Begole, Albert Johnson, and John Lucas[7]
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Mount Whitney Trail (class 1)
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).[1] It is in East–Central California, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km)[8] west-northwest of North America's lowest point, Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.[9] The mountain's west slope is in Sequoia National Park and the summit is the southern terminus of the John Muir Trail, which runs 211.9 mi (341.0 km) from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley.[10] The eastern slopes are in Inyo National Forest in Inyo County. Mount Whitney is ranked 18th by topographic isolation.
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^"Find Distance and Azimuths Between 2 Sets of Coordinates". Federal Communications Commission. 11 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2016-12-21. Coordinates of Mount Whitney = 36.578581, -118.291995 and Badwater Basin = 36.250278, -116.825833
^"Death Valley National Park, Frequently Asked Questions". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-21. Badwater Basin-282 feet below sea level...the lowest in North America.
^NPS (ed.). "John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails". Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
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