How those pitches to entrepreneurs actually stack up. With its Fortune 500 companies and successful startups, metro Atlanta is like âa shaken-up Champagne bottle, ready to explode,â proclaimed AirWatch founder Alan Dabbiere, one of the areaâs most successful entrepreneurs, at last fallâs Venture Atlanta gathering.
The tallest mountain in the U.S., and all of North America, is Mt. McKinley (also called Denali), which stands at 6,196 meters.
Surveyor's mark embedded in the observation tower notes the elevation of 6684 feet above sea level. The peak is the highest mountain in the United States east of the Mississippi River, and the highest in all of eastern North America south of the Arctic Cordillera. The nearest higher peaks are in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the highland foothills of Colorado.