SEATTLE — According to new measurements, Mount Rainier could have a new summit. “I went up there on August 28 the first time ...

Rainier's new (unofficial) high point is rock at least, so it won't be shrinking. At least, not faster than the normal pace ...

Gilbertson submitted his results to Mount Rainier National Park and is waiting ... The traditional summit of the mountain is Columbia Crest but that could change. "We’ll be working with the ...

The mountain has gotten roughly 10 feet shorter over time, down from 14,410 feet, according to scientist and mountaineer Eric ...

SEATTLE – The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount ... 27,887 feet on Mount Everest without oxygen, short of the summit at 29,032 feet but still well within the so-called death ...

“Until recently,” Gilbertson wrote in a blog post, Mount Rainier “was one of the few peaks in the contiguous US with a ...

SU Assistant Teaching Professor Eric Gilbertson, PhD, measured Mt. Rainier’s ice cap peak and discovered it’s not as tall as ...

The discovery was made following a recent expedition to the summit by Eric Gilbertson, a teaching professor in mechanical engineering at Seattle University. "Mt Rainier is the tallest peak in ...

Eva Steinwald, of Meridian, Idaho, is climbing the tallest mountains on each continent. She completed Denali and Aconcagua ...

Since the mid-19 th century, various surveys have measured Mount Rainier with increasingly accurate techniques. The earliest measurements relied on barometers that were brought to the summit ...

A colorful sunrise lights up the sky over Mount Rainier as seen from Tumwater ... at Seattle University, posits that Rainier’s true summit switched about a decade ago, as reported by Seattle ...