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The US has more mountains over 14,000 feet ("fourteeners") than any other country.
To get clear on how high these 97 peaks are, I created an ultra-horizontal visual to show the mountains' ranking. From Denali to Mount Huron in Colorado, you can compare the sizes of these mountain-climbing destinations.
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Another motivation to make this visual is the recent re-ranking by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). With more accurate equipment that involved using gravity meters to gauge sea levels, a group of scientists from NOAA found that some of the mountains were incorrectly ranked, as their actual elevations were slightly off. Now, we are talking a few feet here and there, but to the mountaineering community, especially in Colorado, their fourteeners are sacred. Luckily, none of the mountains lost their status as a "14er", but it was close.
 

​Fun fact: one of the lead scientists participating in this study is my old college roommate, Derek van Westrum. So I can assure you this graphic has been NOAA-approved for accuracy!
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This piece was published on Voronoi on January 21, 2025. I designed it to be a 5-slide horizontal scroll, taking advantage of a new feature of the app for multiple images in one post.

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CHART TYPES: Proportional Ranking (pictorial bar chart)

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