Mount Whitney And Lone Pine Peak And The Alabama Hills California Usa Stock Photo Picture And Royalty Free Image Image At 14,505 ft elevation (and then some with plate shifts), Mt Whitney is the tallest and highest summit in the lower 48 contiguous states The highest would be in Alaska, Mount Denali at ,310ft Mt Whitney offers one of the most physically challenging feats and rewarding experience any human can accomplish in their lifetimeIf you get passed the beautiful scenery at the end of the road is the MT Whitney trailhead All the climbers of MT whitney meat and acclimate there getting ready to climb The rest of MT Whitney, the trail head is at 8,734 elevation the peak is at 14,505 making it the tallest peak in the lower 48 states Mount whitney baptist church lone pine ca