SEATTLE -- A camera disappeared in the Cascades and with it, the images of a lifetime. Descending Mt St Helens, Greg Lentsch spotted an object very out of place. "There's just something glimmering, so ...

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Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...

Everybody saw the eruption coming. Nobody could have predicted how bad it would be. The devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, was a global event in more ways than one: As ash from ...