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Telescope Peak

American  

noun

  1. a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3,368 meters).


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Spreading ethereally over the lowest region in North America, the floodwaters reflect mountains that rise around it, including snow-capped Telescope Peak to the west.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2024

The park’s pine population is located on Telescope Peak, which received an estimated 5 to 10 inches of rain during the storm.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2023

In Death Valley, one of the places feeling the change most acutely is Telescope Peak, the highest point in the park that is home to its population of ancient bristlecone pine trees.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2023

She told me that a colleague, Barbara Bentz, had recently found worrisome evidence of mountain-pine beetles killing bristlecones on Telescope Peak, in Death Valley.

From The New Yorker Jan. 13, 2020

The great mountain, I have spoken of as the snow mountain has since been known as Telescope Peak, reported to be 11,000 feet high.

From Death Valley in '49 by Manly, William Lewis

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