Hi,
Just a thought experiment, really. Unlike many here I suspect I don't drive so I'm wondering what the highest peak in the world that I could currently reach solo (hence rock-climbing is out) is. The criteria would have to be
*Accessible by public transport (train, air, bus, boat)
*Reachable by hiking or scrambling, up to around grade 3
*No crevasses
*No red tape, aside from obtaining a permit for no or minimal cost; no Whitney-style quotas on permits etc
*No "human" dangers to the climb (armed militia etc)
*No excessive altitude problems; the need to acclimatise is OK but not carrying oxygen cylinders etc.
and a possible further couple of criteria, not quite as important as the above:
*Good chance of being snow free in the summer months
*Ice axe not needed in snow free conditions
I don't know of anything higher than my current "high point", Pikes Peak; none of the other Colorado fourteeners appear to have public transport as far as I'm aware. Mount Fuji would probably qualify if relative rather than absolute height was the criterion.
No plans to do this right now - but it would be interesting if there were any candidate peaks...