Show Climbers on Mt Rainier Witness Yawn of Glacier Lou Lon Longmire gin I re Was The h. h The yawn of u a living glacier was the unusual sight witnessed by a 11 party of ot climbers on onI Mount I Rainier While traversing tra a n a portion of at NIsqually glacier the guide interrupted progress by pointing to a n three-Inch three crevasse about fifty feet in front of the thc trail The crack gradually gradual gradual- ly Iy wl widened ened as the climbers retreated until it appeared nearly seventy five feet across The yawning was accompanied accompanied accompanied by tremendous explosions an and 1 roars as chunks as' chunks of at ug old age old Ice hurtled down Into the abyss h hundreds of ot feet teet IN lo to Ind the massive pressure of at the Ic lee Ice field pushing down the mountainside the crevasse with a 11 great earth curth tremor closed a terrific bang shooting splinters of Ic Ice showers of at snow and und clouds of at water high Into the air 1111 The guide explained ed edthe the base of at the glacier was Apparently sUpping slipping over a aery very ery hard rock forma forma- lion Hon which broke brake Its hack 0 |