How High is Up? Dept.

Mount McKinley's perch as the tallest mountain in North America just got a little less comfortable.

New data collected by a government mapping project has sliced 83 feet from the summit of the continent's tallest peak, taking it from 20,320 feet to 20,237, Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell announced Wednesday.

(BECKY BOHRER — AP)

Climbers can relax -- that's still 686 feet taller than Canada's Mount Logan, the second-tallest peak in North America.

"It's still high, it's still hard, it's still cold," said Nick Parker, a climber and employee at Alaska Mountaineering and Hiking who said he has summitted Denali several times. "As long as it's higher than Texas, I don't care."

Four miles high? We can do better than that...