Nature · West summit · separate from the lower east summit
Mount Elbrus: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Elbrus uses an approximately 5,632-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,592 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,632 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- West summit · separate from the lower east summit
- In feet, rounded
- 18,478.9 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 5632.4 m at 43.352500°, 42.438056°.
- Local base
- 3040.3 m at 43.383611°, 42.370000°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 42.369861°, east 42.505417°; south 43.320972°, north 43.384028°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 22.5 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program identifies Elbrus West at 5,642 meters and Elbrus East at 5,621 meters. This section’s highest Copernicus sample lies at the west summit area and reaches about 5,632 meters in EGM2008. The two summits are not assigned a shared height. Surrounding ice and slopes retain the older dataset geometry, with no current snow layer or summit structure added.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 3040.3 meters at 43.383611° latitude, 42.370000° longitude. This produces about 2,592 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Mount Elbrus uses an approximately 5,632-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,592 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program: Elbrus east and west summit subfeatures
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The west summit is the selected reference: 5,642 meters in the Smithsonian listing, approximately 5,632 meters in this bounded surface section.
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