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These elevations look highly exaggerated. The differences in elevation aren’t that extreme.
Absolutely. You'd be able to see Colorado from most of the country if the elevation was to the same scale as the horizonal distance.
Run Google Earth (the app or in the browser) and you can see how relatively flat it all is.
Someone sounds like a flat earther
The proof is right there in the picture!!!
Well. Okay. I admit it looks like a very bumpy earth.
Nothing an iron can't fix.
Your comment made me think of if countries where people that had boob sizes relative to their peak elevation
I mean its zero to 14.5k feet. Hike to the top of Mount Whitney and tell me again it's exaggerated.
First, it's not zero. Denver is 5000ft ASL and it's in a valley (towns around it are higher). There's a slow elevation change across the Midwest to the Rockies.
Second, Passes are a thing.
Still, wagons crossing the Rockies is an amazing thing.
Many people died finding and verifying new passes. Or being scammed into being the ones to verify a new pass they thought was already verified
Most went north to Oregon originally then south to California. The Sierras are also a bitch, see the Donner party for more info.