Climbing Mt Rainier - The Disappointment Cleaver

Hey everybody! Took a short break from astrophotography to go climb a mountain! We actually had a time slot reserved in 2021, but had it cancelled and pushed to 2022 due to dangerous conditions.
Our climb up the DC route (7/16/22 - 7/18/22) had spectacular conditions (minus the wind) this time around! The mountain is actually quite dynamic though and the crevasses along the route have changed dramatically since then. Regardless, the heavy pack and glaciers made this easily the hardest thing I've ever done. It was a bit touch and go there on the upper glaciers but we powered through.
I glossed over some of the nitty gritty in order to keep things brief, but feel free to ask any questions you have about how we did our reservations, details of the climb, logistics, or even the video!
0:00 Introduction
3:36 Day 1
8:40 Day 2
15:03 Day 3
As I didn't make the lovely music, I'm going to shout out the creators/bands for the songs as they occurred in chronological order. If you liked any of the tracks, do look them up!
Through the Waves by Keys of Moon | / keysofmoon
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Reaching The Sky (Long Version) by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsou...
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Take It Easy by Luke Bergs | / bergscloud
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Heroism by MaxKoMusic | maxkomusic.com/
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Motivational Cinematic by LesFM | lesfm.net/upli...
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Glow by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au
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Epic Adventure Cinematic Music | MOVIE by Alex-Productions | / @alexproductionsnocopy...
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Minimal Technology Corporate | Startup by Alex-Productions | / @alexproductionsnocopy...
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Bring Me The Sky by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au
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Ascension by Keys of Moon | / keysofmoon
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Bliss by Luke Bergs | / bergscloud
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The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon | / keysofmoon
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[@jimforbes9119]

Ingraham Glacier is one of the most dangerous places on Rainier. June 1981: 11 climbers died there in a matter a minute. Looong before we used the Cowlitz glacier - Cathedral gap route. We went straight up the Cowlitz glacier from Camp Muir. We went through a gap of Gibraltar and a place called cadaver gap (aptly named) then onto the Ingraham glacier.

[@paulettefrisina6679]

Terrific job Kyle both in the climb and documentary.

[@farbeyonddriven8173]

Why does this not have more hits?? geeezz

[@kylemccaslin]

Thanks! It's kind of slowly picking of steam now, but I'm mostly just happy with how well it came together lol

[@cynthiabaird5386]

Great video, enjoyed it

[@crsasoccerchamp]

awesome video! What did you use to take the video and those great night shots??

[@kylemccaslin]

Those where actually just shots from my brother's iPhone. He had to tune the exposure i think, but those came out AMAZING!

[@Lanefish19]

Great video, what month did go? My daughter and myself are set to climb in mid may of 2024 with RMI. How old was the oldest on your team? Just curious as i will 61 when we make our attempt. Again thanks for the great video

[@kylemccaslin]

We went in July. Our oldest was 59 or so. Best of luck! It was super tough but super rewarding!

[@fitdoc565]

Excellent video Kyle! Thank you for uploading. I have a different question for you- Do you happen to know the name or have public contact information for the African American climber in your group? I'm trying to assemble a group of us to climb Mt Rainier next year. Thanks!

[@kylemccaslin]

Um, I think there may be a little bit of confusion lol. We didn't have an African American Climber in the group. I believe you may be confusing our South Asian Climber. Sounds awesome though that your getting a group together! Best of luck!

[@fitdoc565]

@@kylemccaslin lol, thanks Kyle. At minute 3:58 of the video, the climber on the far right definitely looks African American to me, but maybe i'm mistaken.