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.
In its extreme, the weather shadow effect can create desert environments such as Death Valley, which formed due to the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast Range to the west blocking rainfall almost entirely. As a result the average annual rainfall in Death Valley is just 60mm.