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[VIDEO] Summer Ski Trip on Mount Rainier, WA, Via Emmons Glacier

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SnowBrains | July 19, 2022
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Search Resumes for Hiker Missing for 2-Weeks on Mount Rainier, WA

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With an improved weather window, search teams in Mount Rainier National Park, WA resumed ground-based search operations early Sunday, Oct. 25 for missing hiker, Dr. Sam Dubal. Related: Search Continues for University of Washington Professor Missing on Mount Rainer, WA Since Friday Experienced search and rescue professionals from the National Park Service (NPS) and 10 partner search and rescue organizations began searching for […]

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CragBrains | October 26, 2020
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Body of Skier Missing Since Friday Found in Crevasse at Bottom of Liberty Ridge, Mount Rainier, WA

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The body of a missing climber was located today along the base of Liberty Ridge yesterday. Matthew Bunker, 28-years-old of Seattle, was reported missing on Liberty Ridge by the other member of his climbing party on Friday, June 26. Bunker was skiing behind his partner at approximately 10,400 feet in elevation, near Thumb Rock. As they were descending from Thumb […]

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SnowBrains | June 30, 2020
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Climber Survives 30-Foot Fall into Crevasse on Mt. Rainier, WA and Manages to Climb Out

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A mountain climber credits his quick thinking, and a lot of luck, helping him survive when he fell into a crevasse on Mount Rainier, WA. The incident occurred at the beginning of August, but Graham Parrington and his team are just now talking about it. Graham Parrington and his team had just summited Rainier and were heading back down to camp, […]

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CragBrains | September 19, 2019
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The World’s 5 Tallest Peaks and How Dangerous They Are To Climb

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Climbing big mountains is dangerous stuff. For most people, that’s just common sense (for others it’s not). Which of the world’s 5 tallest peaks is the deadliest? K2 is the second highest peak on Earth but stands as the most dangerous to climb. An insane 23% of people who attempt K2 never make it back alive. That’s almost one in […]

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Mike Lavery | September 13, 2019
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One Killed and Two Seriously Injured as Rockfall Hits Campsite on Mt. Rainier, WA

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One person was killed and two others were injured after a rockfall tore through a campsite on Mount Rainier Wednesday night, the National Park Service said. Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher says a rescue team responded to six climbers caught in a rockfall at 10,400 feet 8 pm Wednesday. Bacher says a climber on the Liberty Ridge route […]

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CragBrains | May 31, 2019
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14,411′ Mt. Rainier, WA Kautz Route Trip Report

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Brandon Arrastia, 24 was born and raised in Miami and a love of the outdoors born from fishing and hiking in his local area led to his current passion. Coming from Florida, a life dedicated to mountaineering is probably as far from his childhood as he could imagine. A few years ago I took an interest in mountaineering being that […]

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Guest Author | August 25, 2018
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Monumental 5-Storey High Icefall on Mount Rainier, WA Would’ve Been ‘an Unsurvivable Event’

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Recent icefall on Mount Rainier, WA has rattled seismographs, and perhaps the nerves of a few climbers, after collapses on the Ingraham Glacier beginning last Friday. Ice blocks and debris tumbled at least 1,000 vertical feet and across the popular Disappointment Cleaver climbing route, according to the Seattle Times. “The large ice block tumbled in the middle of the night when […]

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CragBrains | July 17, 2018
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