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

During the night the lack of moonlight had prevented us from noticing hazards beyond the limited range of our headlamps. Daylight revealed these all too clearly, such as this massive (100+ ft) serac overhanging the climbing route which we had to traverse beneath. It is important to climb at night and then descend long before the afternoon warmth so that such blocks are more frozen and stable, and thus less likely to collapse and topple onto the climbing route. However, seracs are unpredictable, and can topple at any time, so it is imperative not to linger unnecessarily in such dangerous locations.