Is 623 leagues as long as Mount Elbrus?
It's about 600 times as tall as Mount Elbrus
The height of Mount Elbrus is about 1.015 leagues.
(a.k.a. Mingi Tau, a.k.a. Эльбрус, a.k.a. იალბუზი) (Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia) (west summit)
The west summit of the dual-summit volcano Mount Elbrus is 1.015 leagues at its peak and is the highest peak in both Russia and the European continent. Until 1976, a cable car would take visitors to the mountain as far up as the Garabashi camp, located at an elevation of 0.68390 leagues.
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