Mount Elbert

Mount Elbert is the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains of North America.

Like many of the peaks in the Elks, Pyramid Peak is quite steep, especially compared to more gentle fourteeners such as Mount Elbert.

Mount Elbert, as a gas hydrate research site, is the first dedicated NGH test well that was drilled on the North Slope of Alaska.

The range's highest peak is Mount Elbert in Colorado at 14,440 feet (4,401 meters) above sea level.

Mount Elbert is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains.

(There are higher summits, such as Mount Elbert, which are near the Divide.)

Students take three trips into the back country (which varies from the canyons of southeast Utah to the slopes of Mount Elbert).

Mount Elbert is fondly referred to as the "gentle giant" that tops all others in the Rocky Mountains.

Mount Elbert is the fourteenth-highest mountain in the United States.

However, the effort was unsuccessful and Mount Elbert has remained the highest peak in the state.