Celebrating the tallest peak in the Northeast, Mt. Washington, in the granite state of New Hampshire, reaching to 6,288 ft. For nearly sixty-two years, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, held the world record for the fastest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth: 231 miles per hour, recorded April 12, 1934 by Mount Washington Observatory staff only to be beaten by Typhoon Olivia in Barrow Island, Australia in 1996.