At 4,392m, Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. Situated just 95km southeast of Seattle, it has long beckoned climbers and adventurers. Today, we’ll look ...
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The Epic 8-Mile Trail in the West Cascades That’s Worth the Sweat
Mount Si is one of the most popular hikes in Washington, but this challenging trail offers much more than your average urban ...
“I went up there on August 28 the first time and I measured Columbia Crest and the southwest rim and I found that Columbia Crest has melted about 22 feet since the last ground survey in 1998 and it’s ...
The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount Rainier. The frozen ice cap on top of Washington’s iconic mountain — recognized for generations as the tippy top — is melting as the atmosphere ...
Even the most experienced mountaineers are stunned that Kilian Jornet could climb so many 14,000-foot peaks in such a short ...
As an avid mountaineer, the CWU Executive Director of Presidential and Executive-Level Events had the once-in-a-lifetime ...
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Here’s what Kilian Jornet learned while climbing every US 14er in one self-powered push
From the start, Colorado delivered everything at once: altitude, jet lag, lightning. He opened with the legendary LA Freeway ...
Thirty years ago, my friend Jeff and I set off to climb the north face of Mount Rainier (14,411 feet) via Liberty Ridge — a narrow rib of snow and ice more than 5,000 feet tall. Our divergent ...
Brent Okita did something recently that’s not likely to happen again. The 55-year-old Enumclaw, Wash., resident became the second person to make 500 trips to the 14,411-foot summit of Mount Rainier.
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — An injured climbing ranger has been airlifted to Harborview Medical Center after falling into a crevasse while skiing from the summit. Rainier spokeswoman Lee ...
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