The Sierra Nevada from Sierra View Overlook
A single hand-held telephoto pan, stitched into one 19,074-pixel panorama, with every summit on it identified from 10-metre elevation data and confirmed by a ray march along its own geodesic.
37.3543° N, 118.1875° W
ground 2,834 m
azimuth 180.26° – 308.52°
19 Sep 2026, 1:13 pm PDT
184
named summits
111
on the Sierra print
0.11 px
median seam error
128.3°
of arc
133 km
furthest
0.11 px
median residual
The print, made to hang about eight feet wide. The named Sierra Nevada summits the photograph shows that rise at least 300 feet above their saddle, and every fourteener, each with its elevation; the six summits of the Mount Whitney group are named in a small enlargement of the photograph.
Every named summit
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The same print with nothing left out: the White Mountains foreground, the valley hills and the volcanic domes of Long Valley and the Mono–Inyo chain are named too, in smaller type. Dashed leaders mark summits in view that the photograph is too hazy to show.
The photograph, unlabelled
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The record behind it
peak_evidence.csv944 rows · 39 columns
One row per summit: coordinates, elevation and its provenance, distance, bearing, prominence, county, the luminance step of its silhouette against the sky, and the margin by which its sight line clears the intervening ridge, and for every named summit the range it belongs to.
named_not_shown.csv1,129 rows
Every named summit inside the frame that the terrain model places behind something, with the margin in degrees and in pixels — so “the model says this is hidden” can be told apart from “nobody looked”.
METHOD_AND_EVIDENCE.md90 KB
How the panorama was built, how each summit was identified, the errors found along the way and what is still uncertain.