Over the past three decades, at least two experienced climbers have died after tumbling into the Mount St. Helens crater due to a cornice break and a third man survived the fall.

Mount St. Helens climber initially survived 1,200-foot fall into volcano's crater, died trying to climb out, rescuers say. The men who recovered 42-year-old Roscoe "Rocky" Shorey's body found ...

Unlike the large animals on Mount St. Helens, the gophers, buried down in their burrows, survived the eruption. Following the eruption, the gophers tunneled out of their burrows and continued to dig.

What scientists have learned from Mount St. Helens’ devastating eruption, 45 years later. ... Some of them did not survive, but a lot of people survived with their photographs.

Inside the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., SALI the robot weighs small crucibles holding sediment.SALI stands for Sediment Analysis Laboratory Instrument.“This is the modern legacy ...

Mount St. Helens caused a staggering $1 billion in damage, and opened Americans' eyes to the dangers of volcanoes on their own soil — in fact, right next to their cities and homes.

Halfway up the defeating ash field on Mount St. Helens in August, Barbara Travers saw 19 members of her group already at the mountain’s summit. Travers, now 66, was the second-to-last hiker and ...

The Mount St. Helens' eruption in Washington on May 18, 1980 is the worst volcanic eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people and spewing 520 million tons of ash across the U.S.

May 17—Guillermo V. Castaneda of Granger sent this poem to the Columbia Basin Herald in commemoration of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which took place 34 years ago Saturday. At the time of ...

SEATTLE — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific Northwest ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — 42-year-old Roscoe "Rocky" Shorey from Washougal was found dead at the bottom of Mount St. Helens crater last Saturday. It was assumed that Shorey had not survived the 1,200 ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — 42-year-old Roscoe "Rocky" Shorey from Washougal was found dead at the bottom of Mount St. Helens crater last Saturday. It was assumed that Shorey had not survived the 1,200 ...