Wheeler Peak (Nevada)
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Wheeler Peak is the tallest mountain in the Snake Range and in White Pine County, in Nevada, United States. The summit elevation of 13,065 feet makes it the second-highest peak in Nevada, just behind
Wheeler Peak, looking east-southeast in late afternoon light
Wheeler Peak from the north on the summit trail
View of the Wheeler Peak cirque from the Glacier Trail
360-degree panorama from the summit of Wheeler Peak
Prometheus (tree)
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Prometheus was the world's oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree was at least 4,86
Wheeler Peak (Nevada)
…the National Park Service. Higher up on the glacial moraine is a grove of ancient Great Basin bristlecone pines of great age. A bristlecone pine named Prometheus, which was at least 4,862 years old and the oldest known non-clonal organism, grew here before it was inadvertently cut down in 1964 as part of a…
The stump (lower left) and some remains of the Prometheus tree (center), in the Wheeler Bristlecone Pine Grove at Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada
The grove in which Prometheus grew, with the headwall of Wheeler Peak in the distance
The stump of the Prometheus tree