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

We walked through the night with crampons on firm snow, traversing the extremely crevassed Ingraham Glacier (see later photos) and then climbing bare rock and scree on Disappointment Cleaver up to 12000 ft. Looking down at Camp Muir after midnight , we could see a long train of headlamps snaking out of camp across the Cowlitz Glacier. Since we were out ahead of all other groups, we didn't have to worry about them accidentally kicking rockfall onto us, which is a common hazard on the Cleaver. After leaving the rock we followed the right edge of the Ingraham past the top of the Cleaver to 12800 ft, then traversed far to the left (southwest) to avoid seracs and the huge bergschrund crevasse above. This detour extended over half a mile, and we finallly ascended the upper Nisqually Glacier to the summit dome. We reached the southeast gap in crater rim (14180 ft) at 5:30 AM, finally permitting a photograph in the first light of dawn. All nine of us had made it up Rainier successfully!