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
Around 7 AM, I finally decided to traverse along the crater rim to the true summit (14411 ft), which lies on the northwest portion of the rim. This photo shows the final steps to the summit, which this year was covered by a large snowbank even in August (most recent years it has been bare dirt).
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