How Mt Ararat fits the Genesis description of the Ark's resting place

A few critics of NAMI's announcement have pointed out that the Bible does not say that Noah's Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. The text reads:

Gen. 8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

In truth, Mount Ararat is one of the mountains of Ararat, thus the NAMI discovery does match the resting place of Noah's Ark as given in the Bible.

One of the interesting things about NAMI's discovery is the site of the resting place: near the top of the mountain at an elevation of about 14,200 feet, only a few thousand feet below the summit.

More interesting, this announcement has solved a mystery that has always puzzled me about the Ark's resting place as described in the Genesis account. This is the fact that the ark had already rested on the mountain months before the mountain tops became visible. I would have supposed the highest mountains to be visible long before the Ark settled to its resting place. Yet, the text goes on to say:

Gen. 8:5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 

Note that only about ten weeks later do mountain tops become visible to those on the ark. This suggest that the mountain upon which the Ark landed is considerably higher than the surrounding mountains and that the Ark must have landed near the top of that mountain. Otherwise, the surrounding mountains would have been visible before the Ark itself rested.

Those who have criticized this location as an unlikely resting place for Noah's Ark ignore this fact that a landing site of lower altitude would not match the account in the Bible. In fact, of all the mountains of Ararat only Mount Ararat fits the requirements for the resting place of Noah's Ark.