Just to clarify, I'm no expert on any of this, and only dug up and posted these threads so others could have the benefit of whatever had been discussed, since the 14,505 subject had been brought up again here. I would have no way of knowing what is correct (or not). Thanks for clarifying the information within those posts, Steve. I just find and post and leave it for others more knowledgeable to comment on it.

Interestingly, my sister-in-law bought me a "hoodie" sweatshirt back around the time I first summitted Whitney as a congratulatory gift. While I don't have a picture of it, it does prominently display the summit elevation as 14,505'. So this information has at least made it to those who make Whitney shirts.

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)