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

This photo shows Mount Rainier looking north from 6000 ft, a mile beyond the Paradise visitor center. The first half of the climbing route follows the Muir Snowfield along the ridge at right to Camp Muir (10080 ft), located below Gibraltar Rock, the large outcropping at the right edge of the summit dome. At the time of this trip, the upper half of the route went up Disappointment Cleaver (hidden by Gibraltar Rock), then traversed left roughly along the skyline and ascended the summit dome to the crater rim.
(Since our climb began at night; this photo is one taken on 6/28/98.)