( CNN ) -- North America 's tallest mountain has lost some of its stature -- 83 feet of it to be precise . Alaska 's lieutenant governor announced Wednesday that new mapping technology puts Mount McKinley at 20,237 feet rather than the 20,320 it was pegged at . `` That 's 83 feet shorter than we thought , '' Lt. Gov . Mead Treadwell said in a statement . He made the announcement Wednesday at a symposium of the International Map Collectors ' Society in Anchorage . The 20,320 height had stood since 1952 , when the mountain was measured using a technology called photogrammetry , Treadwell 's announcement said . The new height was measured last year with a radar mapping system deployed by the Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey . The project will produce 11,000 new maps of the 49th state by 2016 , according to the statement . Alaskans , including two who 've climbed Denali , as it is called in Alaska , were unfazed by the news . `` It 's hard to climb , and the air is just as thin , '' mountaineer Stan Justice told the Fairbanks News Miner . `` It 's still high , it 's still hard , it 's still cold , '' climber Nick Parker told the Anchorage Daily News . `` As long as it 's higher than Texas , I do n't care . '' And still hundreds of feet ahead of Canada . That 's where North America 's second-tallest peak , Mount Logan at 19,551 feet , sits .
North America 's tallest peak is 83 feet shorter . The 20,320 height had stood since 1952 . Comment: