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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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One 2022 study found that thousands of the trees have died at Telescope Peak, the highest point in Death Valley, since 2013.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2024

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

Utterly exhausted, he drifted off to sleep around 2:30 a.m. at the foot of snowcapped Telescope Peak.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2022

I had wondered for years what the view is like from above, and in August I decided to climb Telescope Peak.

From The New Yorker Nov. 6, 2016

Eight miles away the western mountains rose in a sheer wall surmounted by Telescope Peak, whose snow-clad crest towered eleven thousand feet above the heads of the men whom it had lured here.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

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