Hold on to your hat: Mount Rainier isn’t what it used to be, and not in a metaphorical sense. Like so many of us, the volcano is shrinking as it ages. But one local scientist and mountaineer just discovered that it got so much shorter that the summit point itself has changed.
On August 27, Eric Gilbertson packed a load of survey-grade GPS units into backpacks and began the climb up the southeast side of Mount Rainier, ascending ladders and crossing chasms of ice. Much of the equipment was borrowed from the Seattle University civil engineering department; Gilbertson is a teaching professor in mechanical engineering there, though this was
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