View of Mt Rainier from Paradise A Sea of Clouds below Camp Muir Camp Muir Pinnacle Looking Up at Gibraltar Rock The Climbing Route to Cathedral Gap Dawn in the Summit Crater View Across the Summit Crater Liberty Cap from the Crater Rim Looking Down on Grand Park The Final Steps to the Summit Self-Portrait on the Summit View of St Helens from the Summit View of the Crater from the Summit Descending the Upper Ingraham Glacier Overhanging Serac Panorama of the Ingraham Glacier Traversing Below the Cleaver Crevasse on the Ingraham Glacier Camp Muir from Cathedral Gap The Three Summits of Mt Rainier

Saturday morning and afternoon we could see many parties returning from the summit to Camp Muir. The climbing route above Muir traverses the Cowlitz Glacier, then climbs loose scree and ash through Cathedral Gap (10700 ft) to reach the Ingraham Glacier (hidden behind the ridge). We ate dinner early Saturday afternoon, then napped until 9 PM and set off in the dark at 10 PM, roped up in three teams of three climbers each. We were the first group that night to start out from Camp Muir for the summit.