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Mount Whitney

250 gsm archival matte stock, acid-free, FSC-certified.

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Museum grade · 250 gsm matte · acid-free · FSC

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Printed on 250 gsm archival matte stock — acid-free, FSC-certified, museum grade. Pigment inks, fade-resistant for decades.

Printed image area 45×60 cm (18×24″). Sheet shipped unframed, flat and protected.

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HIGHEST SUMMIT · LOWER 48

Just 85 miles from Death Valley — the lowest point in North America.

Highest peak in the contiguous United States at 14,505 ft.

— The Story

The roof of the lower 48.

The first people on record to stand on the roof of the lower 48 weren't an expedition. They were three fishermen from the Owens Valley — Begole, Johnson, Lucas — who walked up my easier western slope on a clear day in August 1873 and found nobody had bothered before them. The highest ground in the lower 48 was never guarded. It was just far away.

I reach 14,505 feet, the southern crown of the Sierra Nevada, with 10,075 feet of clear air beneath my summit — and Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, lies within 85 miles. The trail from Whitney Portal still asks for 22 miles and 6,100 feet of climbing — the same granite, the same thin air those three walked into with no idea what they'd find.

The line on this piece is my actual contour, pulled from the USGS 3DEP 10-meter elevation model. Where the rock turns, the line turns.

Three fishermen reached the top in 1873. The trail still gains six thousand feet.
— The peak, in numbers

Granite,measured to the foot.

↑ 14,505 FT · HIGHEST IN THE LOWER 48
SIERRA NEVADA GRANITE · SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY
Summit elevation14,505 ft4,421 m above sea level
Prominence10,075 ft3,071 m topographic prominence
First ascent1873Begole, Johnson & Lucas · Aug 18
Trail gain6,100 ft1,860 m over 11 mi from Whitney Portal
Rock typeSierra graniteCretaceous batholith
JMT terminus211 miSouthern end of the John Muir Trail
— The object

How it's made.

Archival terrain on 250 gsm matte stock. Museum-quality archival print. Made to outlast the wall it hangs on.

Paper

250 gsm archival matte stock. Acid-free. FSC-certified.

Print method

Museum-quality archival print with pigment inks. Designed for long-term display under normal indoor light.

Production

Made to order in the United States. Printed and shipped within a few business days.

Framing

Designed to fit a standard 18×24 in frame. Shipped flat in a rigid mailer.

— Provenance

Every line,traceable.

◉ Terrain

Archive ID HE-EA-26-003-MWH
Trophy HIGHEST SUMMIT · LOWER 48 — Just 85 miles from Death Valley — the lowest point in North America.
Terrain Mount Whitney · 36.5785 · -118.292 · North America
Source USGS 3DEP · 10 m DEM
Dataset / version USGS_3DEP_2024_v1 · 10 m DEM · GeoTIFF
Resolution 10 m horizontal · ≈0.82 m RMSE vertical (3DEP 1/3 arc-second, CONUS)
Contour interval Source: USGS 3DEP · 10 m DEM · Rendered: 100 ft
Projection EPSG:4326 · WGS84 datum

◉ Method

Extraction QGIS 3.34 · contour extraction from USGS 3DEP DEM
Editing Human vector cleanup in Illustrator · no smoothing algorithms applied
License USGS public, open and government-hosted · attribution: U.S. Geological Survey, 3DEP.
AI use None in the terrain. No generative models, no style-transfer, no AI autocomplete, no automated contour simplification — at any stage of extraction or editing.
Verification Cross-referenced with USGS National Map and NGS datasheet (2024)
Issue 04 · Spring 2026
Provenance Verify this Archive ID →
— The gift

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