Mt Rainier: Summit Climb via DC (August 98)
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View of Mt Rainier from Paradise
A Sea of Clouds below Camp Muir
Camp Muir Pinnacle
Looking Up at Gibraltar Rock
The Climbing Route to Cathedral Gap
Dawn in the Summit Crater
View Across the Summit Crater
Liberty Cap from the Crater Rim
Looking Down on Grand Park
The Final Steps to the Summit
Self-Portrait on the Summit
View of St Helens from the Summit
View of the Crater from the Summit
Descending the Upper Ingraham Glacier
Overhanging Serac
Panorama of the Ingraham Glacier
Traversing Below the Cleaver
Crevasse on the Ingraham Glacier
Camp Muir from Cathedral Gap
The Three Summits of Mt Rainier
From the end of the traverse at 12800 ft above the Cleaver, this panorama looks acroos the breadth of the upper Ingraham Glacier, with the climbing route visible at lower left. Little Tahoma (11138 ft) is the prominent peak at left, with Cathedral Ridge, Cadaver Gap, and the cliffs of Gibraltar Rock at the right edge. The distant toe of the Ingraham Glacier is visible far below at upper right center.
(THIS IMAGE IS VERY WIDE!)
(Panorama with 60-degree field of view, digitally composited from two photographs.)
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