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Telescope Peak
Telescope Peak is the highest point within Death Valley National Park, in the U.S. state of California. It is also the highest point of the Panamint Range, and lies in Inyo County. From atop this desert mountain one can see for over one hundred miles in many directions, including west to Mount Whitney, and east to Charleston Peak. The mountain was named for the great distance visible from the summit.
==Geography==
Telescope Peak is also notable for having one of the greatest vertical rises above local terrain of any mountain in the contiguous United States. Its summit rises above the lowest point in Death Valley, Badwater Basin at , in about , and about above the floor of Panamint Valley in about .〔''Southern California Atlas and Gazetteer'', DeLorme Mapping, 1990.〕 This is comparable to the rises of other tall, but better known, U.S. peaks. It is even somewhat comparable to the rise of Mount Everest above its northern base on the Tibetan Plateau, a rise of roughly . However Everest rises much more, and much more steeply, above its southern base in Nepal.〔''Mount Everest'' (topographic map, second edition), National Geographic Society/Boston Museum of Science/Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, Bradford Washburn, project director, 1991.〕
Since it is the high point of a range surrounded by low basins, Telescope Peak also has a particularly high topographic prominence of , ranking it 22nd in the contiguous US by that measure.
A variety of trees can be found on the mountain, including single-leaf pinyon (''Pinus monophylla''), limber pine (''Pinus flexilis''), and, at the highest elevations, the ancient Great Basin bristlecone pine (''Pinus longaeva'').
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