𝙃𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙊 𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙇𝙔 𝙈𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝘼 𝙈𝙊𝙐𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙄𝙉

 

The Mountain makes you stand up straight, if not lean back a little.  It's a constant reminder of your littleness, insignificance.  

Tahoma, as indigenous people named it, or Tacoma, if you're from that city, makes you feel a little stupid  referring to something else as "big."

Some Dufus in British Navy

Silly ass George Vancouver tried to name the world's most dangerous volcano after Rear Admiral Peter Rainier, someone who served the British Navy in the West Indies, but, hopefully, that bogus, anglicized name won't stick, just as the former Mount McKinley in Alaska is now known rightfully as Denali.

As a school kid I found it annoying that other peaks were considered higher, taller than Tahoma.

I knew that couldn't be true and now something called topographic prominence has vindicated my original view.

Topographical prominence measures a mountain from it's base and since Renton, the town where I was born, is only 32 feet above sea level, Tahoma's topographical prominence is 13, 210 feet, making it the second tallest mountain on Planet Earth.

I can live with that.