Talk:Mount Elbert

Coordinates and elevation
My apologies to whoever put in the NGS data originally, I briefly changed it back to the old figure off the topo map. However, that's why it's important to cite sources, which is what I have now put into the page. -- Spireguy 18:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Additions
Can someone include information on whom Mt. Elbert is named for/after? 64.207.54.89 (talk) 22:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Parentage?
Can anyone explain why the parentage (topographic) is listed at Mt Whitney in California? Aspengrey (talk) 15:34, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Infobox picture
An IP editor keeps replacing the infobox photo with one from User:Hogs555. What is the consensus of the editors? Which photo is a better illustration of Mount Elbert? Left or right? Please express your opinion, below. Feel free to suggest other photos from Commons:Category:Mount Elbert —hike395 (talk) 06:18, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Bogus DYK (probably)
The 21 May 2013 DYK, cited above, contained this entry for Mount Elbert:
 * ... that to ensure Mount Elbert (pictured) remained the highest of the Rockies, its supporters tore the top off another mountain?

This is almost certainly an error, although it is traceable to a SummitPost page on the mountain. Nearby Mount Massive, the "another mountain" referenced in the DYK, is not the kind of peak one can simply "tear the top" off of. Most likely this is a garbling of an incident that definitely did happen, involving Mount Harvard, third highest of the Colorado Fourteeners, which at one time had a large, man-made cairn on its summit from which protruded a pole alleged to stick up above Elbert's summit elevation. The cairn has been dismantled. This was a joke perpetrated by a bunch of Harvard alumni and obviously didn't affect the actual height of the mountain. (Reference for this is Borneman and Lampert, "A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners.")

I would make the indicated change to the article, but first, if anybody does have evidence of something similar going on for Mount Massive (I do not consider the page cited in the article reliable, but other sources may be), please post here. I am aware of no such evidence despite knowing a lot about the Colorado 14ers (have climbed all three of the relevant peaks, among others), but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. -- Bill-on-the-Hill (talk) 01:27, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I do recall the pole on Mount Harvard, vaguely, but the original claim in the article (History section), which I added, is sourced to a book I own, reference 10, the Best Summit Hikes, James  Dziezynski, Wilderness Press. p. 157., which I can confirm validates this claim.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds  08:19, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I am not convinced of the accuracy of the Dzienzynski anecdote, but accurate or not, tearing down a cairn that was placed on top of a mountain is no more "tearing the top off" that mountain than knocking down any other man-made structure is "tearing down" the natural base it rests on. The top of Massive was NOT "torn off" in a struggle over the high-point designation.  This DYK should never have been published. -- Bill-on-the-Hill (talk) 03:35, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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