Vashon Island guide Mike King summited Mount Rainier for the 100th time on Monday, to little fanfare. Should there be more?

Our outdoors reporter spoke to the chief climbing ranger and an RMI guide about the different roles on Mount Rainier and what ...

On May 9, Rainier Mountaineering Incorporated (RMI) guide Simon Kearns woke up in company housing in Ashford well before dawn. For breakfast, he had a bowl of oatmeal and a cup of coffee. He’d slept a ...

Even with the looming backdrop of one of America’s grandest peaks, the property doesn’t look like much: a modest house surrounded by tall grass fields in the Mount Rainier gateway community of Ashford ...

Simonson, a former RMI guide who runs Mount Rainier Alpine Guides, admits his four Rainier trips a year are the mountain's most expensive, at $1,350 each. A celebrity himself, he takes one fewer ...

A slimmed-down version of the free market completed its ascent to the top of Washington's highest mountain yesterday when National Park Service officials announced that for the first time they will ...

YAKIMA — The National Park Service will divide guided climbs of Mount Rainier among three mountaineering companies beginning in 2006, effectively ending a near-monopoly one company has held at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 10,188 feet up on Mount Rainier, just under the Cowlitz Glacier, sits Camp Muir, a ranger station and climber refuge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There it is, "The Mountain." Mount Rainier, originally named "Tahoma" by our region's first people, full screen out your ...