How tall is yosemite

The people who snuck in during the commotion and pressed the button for the th floor, though, would emerge from the elevator and find themselves eye to eye with the hikers at the upper falls overlook. King Kong, at 25 feet 7. Bigfoot and Yeti, at only seven or eight feet tall apiece, would be completely invisible, which is just the way they like it. Or consider Mt. It's feet high and feet wide. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint would have comfortably fit into Thomas Jefferson's nostrils, and a little dandruff crumbling off George Washington's head could readily kill anyone it happened to hit.

All the stuff sliding past in this slideshow, for starters. Actually, you should watch the entire slideshow anyway it lasts about three minutes , because I ate a roast beef sandwich while I was making it and it would be disrespectful to the cow to just walk out in the middle. Yosemite Valley is a veritable scenic jackpot packed into the compact space between the valley's sheer granite walls. It features El Capitan, Half Dome, Clouds Rest, and a variety of other peaks; the matchless tunnel view ; some of the world's best known waterfalls; a series of shut-off-the-cell-phone meadows; and the Merced River wandering about through the valley's length.

Yosemite Falls , at 2, feet meters , is North America's tallest. Bridalveil Fall , one of the iconic features of the tunnel view, is among the world's most photographed waterfalls. Yosemite Valley also features spectacular seasonal falls like Ribbon Fall and the Cascades, and there are lots of lesser-known but still impressive falls like Wapama in the north and Chilnualna in the south.

El Capitan and Half Dome are two of the world's best known promontories, yet they're dwarfed by many of Yosemite's other peaks.

One of the most famous of the peaks around the valley is Half Dome which soars 8, feet, a full 4, feet above the valley floor.

Silence 5. It is the only route in the world to have the proposed rating of 5. Over thirty fatalities have been recorded between and while climbing El Capitan, including seasoned climbers. Yosemite is home to countless waterfalls. While all but the last two of the waterfalls listed below are in Yosemite Valley, both Yosemite Valley and many other areas of the park have waterfalls both big and small.