Delighted, as in I was tickled pink when I got his autograph, or His parents were tickled to death when he decided to marry her. The first term, first recorded in 1922, alludes to one's face turning pink with laughter when one is being tickled. The variant, clearly a hyperbole, dates from about 1800.
The highest range within the park is the Panamint Range with Telescope Peak being its highest point at 11,049 feet (3,368 m). The Death Valley region is a transitional zone in the northernmost part of the Mojave Desert and consists of five mountain ranges removed from the Pacific Ocean.
1 The maximum air temperature for that day was 128Â°F. 2  Average rainfall at Death Valley is less than 2 inches per year. 3  In some years, it's even less. 4  That's because storms moving inland from ocean lose water when they pass over mountains-and there are four major mountain ranges between Death Valley and the Pacific.