Rocky Mountains
North America > Rocky Mountains
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4,399 |
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North America |
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39°07′03.90″N 106°26′43.29″ |
The Rocky Mountains are 3,218 kilometers (2,000 miles) in length. The Rocky Mountain Range extends from the Mexican frontier through the western United States and into Canada and Eastern Alaska.
The Rockies include over one hundred individual mountain ranges. Major ones are the Absaroka, Beartooths, Bear River, Beaverhead, Big Belt, Big Horn, Bitterroots, Canadian, Clearwater, Columbia, Front, Guadalupe, Laramie, Lemhi, Lewis, Lost River, Medicine Bow, Monashee, Owyhee, Purcell, Sacramento, Salmon River, San Andres, Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch, Shoshone, Steens, Stillwater, Swan, Tetons, Unita, Wallowa, Wasatch, Wind River, Wyoming and Zuni.
The highest point in the Rockies is Mt. Elbert, located 10 miles southwest of Leadville, Colorado. It stands at 14,433 ft (4,399 meters).
Granite Peak is the highest point in the state of Montana, and is part of the Beartooth Mountain Range, which is part of the Rocky Mountain Range. Granite Peak is one of the most difficult U.S. state highpoint ascents, due to technical climbing, poor weather, and route finding. It was the last of the state highpoints to be climbed.
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