Mt. Rainier is 14,411 ft tall and covered by glaciers with crevasses which open up without any notice...so I still can't believe that I summit this big mountain! Miles, Phil, Nick and I drove about 14 hours from our homes to Mt. Rainier national park in Washington state for our three day adventure. The first day we hiked up to Inter Glacier where we found great spot for camping. The second day we had to go only about a mile to Emmons Glacier for our second night. This night was very short, because we woke up at midnight and got ready for climbing at 1 am. The weather was quite nice, we saw stars above us, only the wind was quite strong. We started to climb with many other teams (all roped up for safety), when we were in about half the weather changed and the mountain disappeared in clouds. Most of the teams on the mountain turned back, but we kept climbing. At about 9.30 am we reach the summit, unfortunately we couldn't see anything, but we made it! In about 15 minutes after we left the top the weather changed and there was blue sky again! We manage to get down safely - it was quite scary to see all the crevasses that we passed on the way up in day light. When we got down we found out, that my tent with many others was blown away and probably ended up in crevasses, and my sleeping bag, mat and some clothes with it. With them our plan to sleep at campground before we drive back home got canceled and we got home around 11 on Monday.
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Mt. Rainier je 4392 m vysoky, pokryty ledovcem ktery se otevira na mnoha mistech bez jakehokoliv upozorneni... A tak stale nemuzu uverit tomu, ze se mi podarilo vylezt na tuto horu! Miles, Phil, Nick a ja jsme jeli 14 hodin od nasich domovu do narodniho parku Mt. Rainier ve statu Washington na nasi tridenni vypravu. Prvni den jsme vyrazili k Inter Glacier, kde jsme nasli uzasne misto na kempovani s vyhledem. Druhy den jsme sli jen asi 1.6 km na Emmons Glacier, kde jsme stravili druhou noc. Ta byla ale velice kratka, protoze jsme vstavali o pulnoci a v 1 rano jsme vyrazeli na nas vystup. Pocasi bylo pekne, nad nami hvezdy, jen vitr byl docela silny. Zacali jsme z mnoha skupinkami (vsichni navazani kvuli bezpecnosti). Kdyz jsme byli asi v polovine pocasi se zmenilo a hora zmizela v mracich. Vetsina ostatnich skupin se obratila a sla zpet, ale my jsme pokracovali. Kolem 9.30 jsme dorazili na vrchol, bohuzel nebylo skoro nic videt, ale my jsme to zvladli!. Asi za 15 minut pote co jsme se vydali nazpet se pocasi opet zmenilo a kolem nas byla modra obloha! Vporadku jsme se dostali dolu, bylo to docela strasidelne videt vsechny ty otvory v ledovci kolem kterych jsme sli po ceste nahoru za denniho svetla. Kdyz jsme prisli zpet, zjistili jsme ze muj stan s mnoha dalsimi byl odfouknut a pravdepodobne zkoncil v nejakem ledovci, s nim zmizel i muj spacak, karimatka a nejake obleceni. Tim se zmenil i nas plan prespat jeste jednu noc v kempu a tak jsme vyrazili zpet na cestu a zpet jsme byli kolem 11 v pondeli rano.
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