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In North America, climbing all the fourteeners in their country (or in their state) is a popular pastime among peak baggers.
Not all summits over 14,000 feet qualify as fourteeners: only those summits considered by mountaineers to be "independent" and not "subsidiary" summits, either because they have a big enough topographic prominence or because they are sufficiently far away from the nearest higher summit, or by some combination of these rules.
A rule commonly used by mountaineers in the continental United States is that a peak must have at least 300 feet (91.44 m) of prominence to qualify. By this rule, Colorado has 54 fourteeners, California has 12, and Washington has 2. However, the subsidiary summit of Liberty Cap in Washington, at 14,112 feet and 492 feet of prominence, is rarely counted as a fourteener despite meeting the prominence criteria.
Alaska has 16 peaks over 14,000 feet and its eleven highest peaks exceed 15,000 feet (4,572 m). It is standard in Alaska to use a 200 m prominence rule rather than a 300 feet rule. There is some debate as to whether or not peaks in excess of 14,999 feet should be referred to as "fourteeners." Canada has 15 fourteeners, Mexico has 8.A Fourteener, in poetry, is a line consisting of 14 syllables, usually having 7 iambic feet, often used in 16th century15th century 16th century 17th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. Events Beginning of the " Little Ice Age" a cooling period that resulted in lower crop yi English verse. Sometimes it also used to mean a poem of 14 lines, frequently a sonnetThis article is about the poetic sonnet. For the automobile named Sonett, see Saab Sonett. The term sonnet is derived from the Provencal word sonet and the Italian word sonetto both meaning little song''. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify.
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