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  • noun the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high)

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Examples

  • He's now off Colorado, where he'll go after the 14,433 foot Mount Elbert, which is likely to be one of his more challenging climbs until Denali or Rainier.

    The Adventure Blog 2009

  • Pump Action A less-experimental technology, dating back more than a century, is also gaining currency as a means to store energy and back up the grid: pumped storage, the system used by the Mount Elbert hydro plant outside Denver.

    Water Surge 2010

  • The Mount Elbert hydropower plant high in the Rocky Mountains isn't much to look at — or listen to.

    Water Surge 2010

  • At night, when demand on the power grid is low, the Mount Elbert plant sucks water from the lakes, sometimes using wind power to pump that water up into a reservoir above the plant.

    Water Surge 2010

  • Larissa Bender, Bureau of Reclamation The Mount Elbert plant (center) in Colorado uses pumped storage to generate electricity.

    Water Surge 2010

  • He was a proud member of the Fourteener Club, a loose assemblage of hiking-boot-clad outdoors people who had managed to ascend all fifty-four of Colorado's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks, from the diminutive Sunshine Peak at 14,001 feet to the majestic Mount Elbert at 14,433 feet.

    Manner of Death White, Stephen, 1951- 1999

  • He was a proud member of the Fourteener Club, a loose assemblage of hiking-boot-clad outdoors people who had managed to ascend all fifty-four of Colorado's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks, from the diminutive Sunshine Peak at 14,001 feet to the majestic Mount Elbert at 14,433 feet.

    Manner of Death White, Stephen, 1951- 1999

  • Anyone who wants to open a business has to overcome a financial barrier the size of Mount Elbert.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local rrinaldi@denverpost.com ( 2010

  • Mount Elbert, the highest peak in European Russia.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • East garage, Pikes Peak, Mount Elbert or other offsite parking locations.

    Denver Business News - Local Denver News | Denver Business Journal 2010

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