Mount Columbia (Colorado)

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Mount Columbia
Mount Columbia as seen from Mount Harvard
Elevation	14,077 feet (4,291 meters)[1]
Location	Colorado, United States
Range	Rocky Mountains, Sawatch Range
Prominence	897 ft (273 m)[2]
Coordinates	38°54′14.17″N, 106°17′51.00″W[3]
Topo map	USGS Mount Columbia
First ascent	1916 by Roger Toll
Easiest route	scramble

For other mountains by this name, see Mount Columbia.

Mount Columbia is a mountain in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. At 14,077 feet, it is one of Colorado's fourteeners. Along with nearby Mount Harvard, Mount Yale, Mount Princeton, and Mount Oxford, Mount Columbia is one of the Collegiate Peaks; it is named for Columbia University.

[edit] See also

• Colorado fourteeners
• Colorado mountain peaks
• Colorado mountain ranges
• Mountain peaks of North America
• Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
• Mountain peaks of the United States

[edit] References

1. ^ NAVD 88 elevation from the National Geodetic Survey
2. ^ Mount Columbia on Topozone
3. ^ NAD 83 coordinates from the National Geodetic Survey

[edit] External links

• Mount Columbia on Summitpost
• Mount Columbia on Distantpeak.com
• Mount Columbia on Bivouac

• Mount Columbia (Colorado) is at coordinates 38°54′14″N 106°17′49″W / 38.9039, -106.2969 (Mount Columbia (Colorado))Coordinates: 38°54′14″N 106°17′49″W / 38.9039, -106.2969 (Mount Columbia (Colorado))