So there's an easy rule of thumb that people sometimes use, where you square the number of miles and multiply that by 8 inches. While some have pooh-poohed that, I've seen charts to where it's accurate to a few feet out to over 100 miles, but didn't see it farther than that.
Using that formula for 175 miles yields 20,416 feet, whereas the real trigonometric calculation is somewhere in the 19,000+ range. Not enough to make a difference regarding the point being made here, and it's easy for anyone to scribble down or even do in their head.
Now, one does have to take into account the elevation of the observer, which the FE folks in these videos always do, since it's critical. Given the elevation of the obsever, in the video, of 1,000 feet, that results in 12,000+ feet of hidden height, and the elevation of the highest peak of the Canagu range is only 9,000. That would mean the entire then should be hidden with about 3,000 feet to spare, and yet we see that most of it is visible, with the exception of maybe 1,000 - 2,000 at the bottom due to various factors. I don't care how you crunch numbers, unless the globe is 10x bigger than the claim, there's no way that physically only the bottom portion of the range would be obscured, and you'd need some massive refraction to pull it off.
So, another reason that Canigou is critical as an FE proof ... it happens every year. Refraction is inherently inconsistent, where some years it wouldn't happen at all, other years it would be badly distorted, etc. etc. ... and yet this same exact phenomenon is consistenlty see every year.