Claim: At an elevation of 8,711 ft, Gerlachovský štít is the highest peak of the High Tatras, a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia and southern Poland.
Evidence: Gerlachovský štít (Slovak pronunciation (help·), translated into English as Gerlachov Peak, german: Gerlsdorfer Spitze), informally referred to as Gerlach, is the highest peak in the High Tatras, in Slovakia, and in the whole 1,500 km (930 mi) long Carpathian mountain chain. The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (Slovak: Vysoké Tatry; Polish: Tatry Wysokie; Rusyn: Высокі Татри, Vysoki Tatry; Hungarian: Magas-Tátra; German: Hohe Tatra; French: Hautes Tatras), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Usually listed at 2655 metres AMSL (8,711 ft), its exact elevation is actually 0.6 metres (2.0 feet) lower.