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¿Question #4413?
Randy Cox: What's the highest ground (measured above sea level) you've stood atop?

ocdspectrum: 42. Had to say it sooner or later.
pricero1: 3466m (11,371 feet) at the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland.
the manatee: 14,505 feet.
Woelf: Does standing on the Moon count? Not saying that I've stood there, but I'd still like a ruling on it.
Felimid: About halfway up the Jungfrau in Switzerland (I don't know what the mountain's height is). The elevator only takes you that far. The train takes you all the way to the top (but I haven't done that yet).
jcaraway: Pikes Peak
DT76: it seems that's somewhere in Rocky Mtn NP above the tree line (>11,500 ft)
arkibet: world trade center? Empire state?
daveroswell: Not sure actually
Fairer Sex: Pikes Peak, Colorado
jasta6: the Alps in Austria. Gods Country.....................................................................
aleo09: not sure of the name of the mountain in Whistler, BC.
ricardofo: 1500 meters
ZeroZilla: Having narrowed it down to a few choices, it appears the mountains near Sedona, Arizona, U.S.A. were the highest I'd been. I imagined it might have been the Acropolis, in Athens, Greece, but no.
MotUfan: Brasstown Bald perhaps. I've never been at that high of an elevation.
Monkeywood: 8,000ft-timberline trail, Mt hood oregon
Randy Cox: Probably Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina.
Abigail: Jungfraujoch (3471 m above sea level)
Muzzaro: I have no idea, sorry.
DHEK: I don't remember. Hundreds of metres (more than a thousand?) above sea level when I went to a highlands resort.
TheArchAngel: Mt. Baker, Washington, USA 5089 feet (1551 m) at the resort, the mountain is 10,778 ft (3,285 m)
Butterbane: 10781 ft
kimba: I have no idea.
Leo-T: Hard to say - probably about 7000-8000 feet. Both on Mount Pilatus in Switzerland and in the Rockies taking the train from Regina to Vancouver.
puffinge: I don't know, but thanks for saying atop
tomlynch: I have no idea.
PsyJam: Mt. Snowdon in Wales - 1080m above sea level
scriptorum: I forgot to bring my tape measure that day.
Embark: Mt Fuji
Oxotnik: Pike's Peak. 14K ish, IIRC.
them: Pike's Peak (only puked twice while hiking up, too!)
MisterCranky: 42
Cromaa: Dunno
vampywife: i'm not sure how high it was, but it would have to be somewhere in the Swiss Alps
Roja: I guess it would have to be Mount Merapi (active vulcano in Indonesia)
Mordachai: Let's see... ... ... ... nope, don't know.
dietevil: Probably about 10'000 feet or so, in the Alps.
oceanika: 3,180 m./10,433 ft. -> http://www.4124orchardway.net/yarigadake.htm (not me)
bigbadsteve: not really sure, how high is pikes peak?
skrutsch: I don't know.
POvidiusNaso: Probably Berthaud Pass.
ssmooth: Dunno. I've been to Denver.
Jula: Probably Mission Peak, the hill down here in S. CA... but then there's that mountain that I went up once.. Er, dont' remember what it's called, though.
xlorp: 14,495 feet. Mt. Whitney (did it as a day hike in sneakers and shorts)
brainrob: 12,000 feet
e.c.r.: don't know
jttm: I don't know
GrandpaDave: The Continental Divide
Cavedog_pdx: Somewhere over in the Willowas in Eastern Oregon.
Lord_Prussian: Not really sure--maybe 10,000+ ft.
chaddyboy_2000: I really don't know.
skelebone: I've been to the top of Mt. Phillips in New Mexico, though I don't know how high it is (though it's not above the treeline like Mt. Baldy)
CDRodeffer: Probably a mountain in Washington when I went skiing.
CortexBomb: I really have no idea, I imagine it was out in the PA mountains though
Spielfreak: Probably Pike's Peak