Something stirred beneath Mount Rainier this summer, sending over 1,000 earthquakes through the ground in weeks—the largest ...

In September 2024, Eric Gilbertson arrived at Mount Rainier with a grant from the American Alpine Club and a simple mission — to find out if the summit was still where everyone thought. Gilbertson, an ...

The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at ...

FILE - In this file photo taken June 19, 2013, Mount Rainier is seen from a helicopter flying south of the mountain and west of Yakima, Wash. A helicopter rescued four climbers from near the summit of ...

Sometimes a mountain is measured by more than its height.Take Mount Rainier. Washington State’s highest point is 23 feet lower than Colorado’s high point, 14,433-foot Mount Elbert. But there’s little ...

Four climbers — including two from New York — were rescued near the summit of Washington’s Mount Rainier after being stranded for three days on the 14,410-foot peak, officials said. The men – Vasily ...

ASHFORD, Pierce County — Nearly four decades of an exclusive franchise to lead climbers to the top of Mount Rainier will end this weekend when two other companies will be allowed into the game, the ...

The body of a 41-year-old Bremerton man who collapsed Wednesday on Mount Rainier was recovered on Thursday. The man, Brian Harper, was participating in an expedition led by the licensed guide service ...

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash., July 25, 2011 -- On any clear Washington day, looking to the east will grant the eye of the beholder a majestic view of Mount Rainier, which stands tall over Joint Base ...

SEATTLE – A helicopter crew has rescued four climbers from near the summit of Mount Rainier after they had been stranded on the Cascade Mountain peak in Washington for several days. The climbers were ...