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Huge Rockfall on Mount Rainier Caught on Film

Friday, July 8, 2011

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Two weeks ago 3 large ice/rock falls occurred on the upper flanks of 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier. Each sent a large volume of debris down the mountain's Nisqually Glacier, which is adjacent to the Muir Snowfield and the approach route (Disappointment Cleaver) used for climbing Mt. Rainier.

On June 25th a pair of climbers making their way up the Muir Snowfield captured this footage of one of those icefalls:




Jeff
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