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MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...

Travis Southworth-Neumeyer, executive director of the Mount St. Helens Institute, has a few theories to explain the surge in climbers to the volcano, which was shortened by about 1,400 feet when the ...

Brittany Fintel says she really thought she was dead the moment she slipped. A woman survived the nearly impossible after falling down hundreds of feet while climbing on Mount St. Helens. Brittany ...

• About 14,500 people a year climb Mount St. Helens though the vast majority — about 13,000 — do so in the summer. • About 1,500 people climb the volcano during the winter season of Nov. 1 to March 31 ...