Under Rainier's crater, a natural laboratory like no other
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 09:20
in Earth & Climate
Counting all the ups and downs, he had climbed more than 15,000 feet to get here - past yawning crevasses and over cliffs where a single misstep could send a rope team tumbling. His party was pummeled by a lightning storm so ferocious it stood one woman's hair on end. Gale-force winds threatened to shred their tents.