






Going to the mountains is going home It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks. The now second highest surface wind speed ever officially recorded is 372 km/h (231 mph; 103 m/s) at the Mount Washington (New Hampshire) Observatory: 6,288 ft (1917 m) above sea level in the US on 12 April 1934