Far Horizon
The observer's line of vision is along a tangent to the surface of the earth at the far point she can see on the horizon. Imagine a right angled triangle with the observer at one vertex, the far horizon point at another vertex and the centre of the earth at the third vertex.
You have enough information to find the angles in this triangle and hence the distance required.
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