it's time to prepare for climbing the Pacific Northwest's spectacular peaks, including Mt. Rainier. Mt. Rainier, with its imposing glaciers and unpredictable weather, demands meticulous ...

McDowell is a guide for Climbing the Seven Summits and led his ... McDowell is also guiding this year on Mount Rainier and ...

He was climbing Mt Rainier in Washington when he was caught in whiteout conditions. Rescuers found him and transported him to an emergency room, but he died for 45 minutes while in there before ...

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

Rising above Seattle like a massive ice cream cone, Mount Rainier is the fifth-highest mountain in the continental United States. About 11,000 people attempt to climb the glaciated peak annually, but ...

My mountaineering résumé is short and unremarkable, my highest previous climb having been to the top of 14,410-foot Mount Rainier in Washington. For me, Denali is an endpoint, not a stepping ...

A few weeks ago, the Navy identified the aviators as Wileman and Evans after the two died in an aircraft crash during a "routine training flight" near Mount Rainier. Evans was a naval flight ...

His career in the mountains has lasted 25 years, including guiding for 12 years at Mount Rainier. This is Politz ... enough climber to have done it. The climb is not all that severe and I ...