Mount Rainier Topo Map

The Rainier 9 was a team of 5 Americans and 4 Canadians with one degree of separation. They shared a love of the outdoors and a good adventure. Most had limited experience at higher altitudes and alpine climbing (crampons, ice axe, traveling roped together) but they committed to attempt Mt. Rainier in late 2003. Most trained hard and came to the Hill ready to give it their best in July 2004.

All the climbers made it to the summit of Mt. Rainier and back safely. They did in style by setting an RMI season assent record of 5 hours and 20 minutes from Camp Muir to the Summit. Three of the climbers, Bryan, Ian and Alan also summited Mt. Hood a few days earlier.

Please enjoy the pictures, videos and updated final reports on the Rainier 9 page. The discussion board remains open for any comments. Thanks to everyone for their wonderful support during the training and the climb.

Climb on!!Climb on!

Route map

We took the Disappointment Cleaver route on the right (West) side of the mountain. I took the picture above while flying into Seattle. It is the Southeast side of Rainier which would be lower left on this map.