Is Black Elk Peak the highest point between the Rockies and the Alps?

Black Elk Peak in the Black Hills is not the highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the Alps in Europe.

Black Elk Peak, which was officially named Harney Peak until 2016, is 7,231 feet above sea level. It is the highest point east of the Rockies in the United States.

But several mountains taller than Black Elk Peak lie between North America and Europe in the Northern Hemisphere. Greenland has multiple peaks higher than Black Elk Peak, including Gunnbjørn Fjeld at 12,119 feet. Mount Teide in Spain’s Canary Islands rises to 12,198 feet.

Versions of the claim appear in various descriptions of the summit. U.S. Forest Service materials describing the historic fire lookout once referred to the peak as the highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the Pyrenees, and some travel guides have repeated similar wording using the Alps.