Dave Crockett's Footage from May 18th 1980 (uncut)

[@nnonotnow]

Just for context: News photographer Dave Crockett's stunning footage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens - May 18th, 1980. Crockett became engulfed in total darkness and was very lucky to have survived.

[@Beth-ie]

Thanks!

[@ReaperRestorations]

well, he was king of the wild frontier after all...

[@Rickyrab]

That's better than his namesake fared at the Alamo.

[@Pillmanized]

@@ReaperRestorations 🤣

[@nixtrostrike]

The cameraman never dies

[@jango7889]

"My god, I never realized how badly I wanted to live." Damn. What a line. Glad he made it out, otherwise that would be *extremely* haunting.

[@nottoday5773]

15:42

[@MooseArc002]

for many that come to this realization, it's too late. almost was for him.

[@rogermartin404]

Grew up 75 miles from Mt. Saint Helen... the ground shook continuously for a week before, no birds or wildlife was anywhere, even our cattle wouldn't come out the barns.

[@whiteoutgotu]

That's what's most disturbing about this video. The silence.

[@otterpoet]

Forty+ years later, still remember those words, "At this moment, I honest to God believe I'm dead." That darkness is utterly haunting.

[@TheGreatSimonski]

~11:00 "My god, this is hell"

[@Otterdisappointment]

Ain’t that the truth

[@alexsiemers7898]

The best thing about having raw footage like this is that there’s no dramatic music overlayed on it like in a documentary. Instead it’s just the ambient noises which make it feel that much more real and foreboding.

[@ConsciousConversations]

Yes

[@localbod]

I wholeheartedly agree. However, without dramatic music the zombie NPCs / Sheeple won't be able to remain focused long enough to watch beyond a minute or so.

[@nsro3837]

Or some news agency cutting away to the studio while they tell us what happened in the video they won't show

[@calebh7902]

​@@localbodSUCH AN ACCURATE STATEMENT 😂😂😂😂

[@Spiritualsimplicity]

And no chatter or anyone saying ‘BRO!”

[@toplaycool21]

This is remarkable footage. Remember, this is 1980. Man, if I saw that cloud, I would’ve been so terrified. That whole area looked like the apocalypse.

[@OregonCrow]

its really bad quality

[@kmp101]

Im glad your reminded me that this is 1980 because I didnt see it in the title .

[@no_regerts5176]

I saw it in my rearview mirror. I remember thinking…WTF?

[@kimberlypetrossi6607]

They didn’t have smart phones back then, I remember because my daughter was two years old then, she had cancer, and we went to a hospital in our area - it was 70 - 80 miles away. This guy needs to get out of there. QUICK!

[@kmp101]

@@kimberlypetrossi6607 are serious? They didnt have smaet phones in 1980??

[@kermitwilson]

2nd grade west of Yakima. We thought there was a nuclear war for awhile, perfect mushroom cloud east looking west. Ash fell like mad, my grandpa had been in the dustbowl in Oklahoma, and he told us to wrap chains around the axle of our truck so it would drag on the ground and prevent static from building up in the vehicle because it could short the battery out, and he was right. It worked. Odd how some 60 year old knowledge (at that time) was so in the moment.

[@steviechampagne]

what a cool story. And what useful advice it was! Life is one great connection, we all share the same stage we call Mother Earth

[@truckinforjesus]

I was 40 miles north of Seattle during this event and I took was in 2nd grade. An older friend of mine was picking up produce in Pasco the following summer (1981). At the warehouse some workers showed him an object and asked him to guess what it was. He couldn't guess correctly. It was a potato, an 11 lb potato. That ash made for some great fertilizer.

[@garrettfornea1088]

I bet you were relieved to find out it was the volcano!

[@Cokercole]

Cool !!

[@RollforDrama]

now it's 100 year old knowledge. Wow.

[@NullUnit2]

I was 9 year's old and living in Vancouver, Canada when this happened. The sound of the eruption woke me up and shook my bedroom windows, about 320 miles away. My dad was on a boat that ended up covered in ash and brought back a 35mm film canister's worth of it for me. I still have it, now displayed in a glass bottle.

[@Heliosphan33]

That’s so cool!

[@KickTheTiresAndLightTheFires]

I was -9 lol

[@JohnnyButtons]

Do you remember how it felt to breathe that summer? Felt like asthma.

[@bubblezovlove7213]

Two of my most prized possessions are a stereoscope and a compound microscope. Both would be great for looking at the ash! At around two hundred pounds each, those two microscopes are probably the best four hundred quid I ever spent... :D

[@unbannablebob395]

My parents were living just west of Portland Oregon when this happened. I was born a year later. They still have a jar of ash on the bookshelf.

[@firegaze21]

This is so remarkable! I’ve seen the key bits before but seeing the complete footage he shot that day is amazing!

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Did this guy get some sort of Pulitzer Prize for this stark, brave effort he managed to record? This is right up there, with that famous description of the Hindenburg disaster!

[@localbod]

Thank you very much for posting this fascinating film and for not ruining it with dramatic music, etc...

[@willbart1236]

I went to visit mount Saint Helens in 1998. When we were still 20 miles away, all of the trees in every direction were snapped in half. I was blown away.

[@howardhughes7596]

Me too a year later and all the trees were snapped off evenly, as if with a razor. I've seen microburst damage here in the midwest, but that is nothing - almost zero, compared to what the explosion did.

[@simpleman5688]

How were you able to write this..?

[@LagmasterB]

I hiked up it in 1990. Insane destruction.

[@SlimbTheSlime]

No, the trees were blown away.

[@arthurmchugh5184]

I rode my motorcycle from Pennsylvania and it was a wild sight in 1987 !!!!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@Lammy4ever7]

I just looked up an article on this guy. Adorably enough, when he felt he was out of danger, he turned his camera around for an old-school selfie. I don't even know the guy, but I felt proud of him when I saw his smile on the news article.

[@Taylormade33]

Finding out he made it..makes this even better I couldn't imagine and hope i dont ever but the footage made feel some type of way for sure...

[@cupuacu4life13]

yall wouldnt find it adorable if it was a zoomer leme tell ya

[@JackMehoff-m3s]

That’s the point. It’s “adorable” because of how uncommon “selfies” would’ve been. Try and keep up, k?

[@whitemonstrius]

@@cupuacu4life13exactly , it’s wholesome when old people act like young people, but when young people choose themselves it’s a problem

[@malloryknox6802]

If a kid did that nowadays I bet you would complain 😂

[@paul0wen65]

I lived in Great Falls when this happened. I went out to feed our dog and saw the silhouette of the ash plumes to the west. I went back inside, thinking it was an approaching thunderstorm. My family has just turned on the news about the eruption. We brought our dog inside. I and the next oldest brother still delivered the Tribune at 5 am. That was the eeriest morning I have ever experienced-we did cover our faces and put goggles on. One of my best friends collected the ash and I still have the sample,

[@eck413]

When he starts speaking 11:00 you can truly hear fear and desperation. Absolutely terrifying😮

[@russtaylor2122]

I hear acceptance and an attempt to leave a legacy. Imagine being there in the pitch black though. Man...

[@eck413]

@@russtaylor2122 very true I do hear that as well

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

I take it the dude died?

[@Faridaily]

​@@stavinaircaeruleum2275 No, he thankfully survived. Was rescued by helicopter crew.

[@truesoulghost2777]

It woke me up

[@MattH-wg7ou]

When I flew over this area in 2017 I was amazed at the visible difference you could still see from the sky. And all the trees still in that lake.

[@Cokercole]

I lived on the Columbia River near Troutdale when it blew up. I was 23 at the time. I was visiting my dad up towards Portland . The view of the mountain was perfect. What an amazing sight that was. A little over two years later I was going up with my friend who was an aerial photographer..... ' we went up on a regular basis but on a few occasions we flew up to the volcano. You wouldn't believe the landscape. The side that blew out all you could see for miles were all the trees in the forest laid out in one direction like toothpicks. It was awesome. It was still a no fly zone but nothing ever came of it. 😎

[@livenhfree]

Nature will have its way with the land.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

37 years later, the trees still was there? Are you sure they are the same? I know the surrounding area has been solidified in lava and ash. But it sounds incredible

[@antysmith606]

Try climbing it. I did that in 2017. Unforgettable experience.

[@griechland]

@@mortenfrosthansen84 The northern part of Spirit Lake is filled with floating treetrunks from the eruption. Go on Google Maps and check it out, it is a pretty cool sight.

[@staceylpittman532]

I saw Dave Crockett and immediately thought Davey Crockett and thought what!? This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@billofrightsamend4]

I believe it is pronounced David Crockett.

[@paulliebler7660]

Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@jameselliott216]

​@@billofrightsamend4 No, it's pronounced Davey. It's spelled D~A~V~Y Davy Crockett

[@Pooki2024]

@@jameselliott216*spelt don’t be a smart ass.

[@karenharris722]

Dave Crockett's car is at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum in Kelso, WA

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

The only interesting Ford Granada ever.

[@karenharris722]

@@chaunceyfeatherstone6209 Yeah, probably!

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that info.

[@piotr277]

@@chaunceyfeatherstone6209 That's a Mercury Monarch.

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

@@piotr277 Okay. The only interesting Mercury Monarch ever.

[@barrymcclung9046]

How he was able to focus on filming and documenting this event leaves me in awe. I was home from High School with pneumonia. My Dad brought the "news only" telly for the camper into my room. I can't remember now what i was watching, but i remember vividly ABC News breaking in on the telly with the report. I'd already lived through a hurricane (Alicia in '72); about a month prior, I got my teeth rattled by a M-5(?) earthquake near Palm Springs (I can't even remember why I was in Cali). And hid in a cellar during an (EF2?) tornado near Ravenna, Kentucky in August '77. But this, without being nearby, made my blood turn to ice and my brain go into terror mode. All I could think of was the documentary on Krakatoa I'd recently watched.

[@johnpooky84]

*F2 tornado. The (ugh) EF-scale didn't show up until 2007.

[@dimensione90]

When you said Ravenna I think you were in holiday in Italy (Ravenna is a Italian city in Romagna)

[@Zer0fuks]

Novarupta in Alaska was far more terrifyingly impressive. I never would've imagined one volcano erupting so violently it drained the magma chambers of all the other nearby volcanoes miles away and they collapsed. Some areas got covered in 120 feet of ash.

[@Hilaire_Balrog]

hurricane Alicia was in 83. In texas

[@realtsavo]

Where on earth did you find this? I tried tracking down this footage years ago, even tried getting in touch with Dave via the station, but he had apparently gone off the grid. I remember them telling me that he had never really gotten over that experience, which I don't blame him for a bit.

[@luv2luv720]

I've never seen the uncut version!

[@OrangeYTT]

KOMO still owns the film it seems, as they rescanned parts of it for their 70th anniversary. This seems to be a VHS telecine of that film, so this was probably done around the 80s or 90s before they locked it away.

[@nickytommymancinelli8066]

Where’s Davey Crockett today? I was sure he died@the Alamo??

[@localbod]

​@@nickytommymancinelli8066 Did you read the title? It said Dave Crockett, didn't it, not Davey.

[@AaronNorris-g3f]

@@nickytommymancinelli8066 No, you fool, he clearly survived and is going by Dave these days. Seems to be in great shape for a man born in the early 19th century.

[@jonschenk9438]

I was 25 and a college student in Moscow Idaho when this took place. I hadn't heard what happened, but saw the black wall of ash heading toward us. Birds went quiet and the talcum powder ash started to fall and it turned to night. We got over an inch, covering everything. It was an absolute mess for a long time to clean up and recover. A lot of cars that regularly drove through the ash never really lasted. The ash was very fine and abrasive.. Would gum up like clay when you tried to wash it away. An amazing experience.

[@AMurderOfLobs]

You guys should have washed your entire world with cocoa butter. Vats and vats of cocoa butter. On the cars, on your elbows, a dallop on your toast, a glob in your coffee. Automotive engines famously love cocoa butter. You ruined everything because of your feeble-minded "anti-cocoa butter" mandate! Such tragic, shameful waste - you FOOLS! Never again [refrain from liberally coating all of your stuff with cocoa butter].

[@henryzhang3961]

watching that light in the distance fade out is so surreal

[@shannonhardin5908]

He barely was able to walk out of the dark cloud s of ash and finally take a pic of himself after he got clear

[@christianzilla]

Thank you

[@BenUpinya]

I was in Kelso, WA about 15-20 miles West of St. Helens when it erupted. A friend invited me to his 20th birthday bash on Sat. I bought a brand new Yamaha 650 Special that morning and thought it would be a nice ride down from Olympia so I hit the Interstate for the 50 mile ride. It was a good bash as we partied all night and were well into the 3rd keg when all Hell broke loose! We were about 15 miles from St. Helens but it felt like we were right at the base. I think I was locked, loaded and rolling in mere minutes. By the time I hit the Toutle River Bridge it was a boiling grey/brown cauldron of mud, ash, logs and water. Traffic was at a near standstill as drivers were in a mix of fear and awe at the sight of ash boiling from the crater to 80,000 ft and was beginning to envelope the freeway. I said F-this and pulled on the shoulder and started grabbing gears. The next 20-25 miles I was fighting near zero vis. to light dustings as I went in and out of the ash cloud. By the time I made it back home my brand new bike looked anything but. The paint was a dull black and the chrome was sand blasted off. A couple dozen friends made my place ground zero for the day as we all climbed up on my roof, passed the bong and watched history. As we watched, this huge wall of boiling ash that stretched as far as we could see horizontally and clear up to the heavens moved ever closer until it was maybe 2 blocks away. Then just stopped! For hours this giant boiling wall of ash just froze right in front of us. Occasionally a small dusting fell but there it stayed. We actually climbed down and walked from 18th to 20th and in a matter of yards day turned nearly to night the cloud was so thick. Then retreating a few yards we were once again in day light... definately one of the top 10 craziest things Ive experienced...

[@ElementWrath]

What an incredible story, thank you for sharing your experience! You've got a knack for storytelling.

[@justinoliver1984]

Absolutely insane story mate! Glad you had the sense to shag outta there, and thank goodness you were on the 650!! Sounds like exactly the thing I'd do with my buds... Sitting in the roof taking a rip and watching history. Just unreal...thanks for sharing!

[@osamabinladen824]

@BenUpinya What are the other 9 craziest things you have experienced? 😂

[@john-brady]

Well told - I’d enjoy hearing the other nine…

[@EKA201-j7f]

Wow, thanks for sharing your experience there in such detail.

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

I am grateful you published this because of all the awesome posts from others who experienced this. Thank you.

[@j.w.r3730]

Was with a group southeast about 30 miles packing up from camping when it let loose. Ground bounced under us,I'll never forget that feeling,and it was strong,scary. Rangers had already told us probably not a good idea to stay in the area,we knew it then. Then we saw the eruption cloud rising,and we got the hell out of there,let me tell you. I'll always remember looking back as we were leaving thinking that cloud isnt normal. Its too big,too fast,it has to be a lateral eruption,and man,it was coming on. Now I hear the mountain is heating up again,so I'm concerned for people who have resettled there.

[@גוגל.קום]

12:41 they censor his final words and then again seconds after... what kind of psycho does that

[@user-si7uu3jz1c]

I was camping out in the woods west of Missoula. It got dark and started raining ash. We had no idea what was going on. We packed up and headed back to town. It was apocalyptic and I wondered if we would all be dead soon. So relieved to know that it wasn’t as bad as we had feared

[@AnoraJohnson]

I lived near Missoula at the time. The weeks surrounding the eruption are fused in my memory - it was like living on another planet. My parents had to convince me to keep a bandana over my face indoors. I was little and not happy about it. Breathing was hard either way. The first time my dad went outside to check damage, I was terrified he'd never find his way back. I did a lot of crying into that red bandana. It was days before sunlight hit the window. Our car even lost its paint sitting in the driveway. It was a weird summer with everything under all that thick gray ash.

[@Galileopizza]

Same here, was camping right there

[@Aranck-kcnarA]

Hard to fathom that the Yellowstone Caldera is predicted to be a minimum 2,000 times the eruption of Mount Saint Helens if and when it lets loose

[@aaronboren5851]

One of the really interesting things about his footage is you can see that strong air inflow at the surface at 7:35 as the pryrocumulus cloud of ash rises to nearly 80k ft. It behaved much like an enormous thunderstorm.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

Scary stuff.. Those poor bastards, who knew they couldn't make it, didn't stop recording and logging reports. That radio call, from a man who knew it was the end is chilling

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

It is the unbelievable pressure from within the earth, that makes it go up so high.. Like the volcano in Iceland some 10 years back. That interrupted planes all over Europe for days. It also reached the atmosphere. Lava fountains around 200 meters high

[@chrismaverick9828]

@@mortenfrosthansen84 Dave Crockett survived.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

@@chrismaverick9828 It is another video of an elderly guy who was camped out close the volcano.. who was well aware he wouldn't make it

[@Dominus_Umbrae]

Volcanic eruptions can cause lightning within the eruption cloud

[@luxvox9239]

I've wanted to see this footage again since I was a kid, thank you.

[@danem.9402]

Amazing footage thank you. So glad to hear he survived. I bet he told his grandkids this story many times

[@Aeschyne]

I wanted to cry when he started to cough after saying that

[@archaicrevivalsYTchannel]

R.I.P. Bigfoot 1967-1980

[@Tier1Norseman]

Supposedly two died.

[@CarlAserio]

Really yous heard of two bigfoots dead? I wonder if that's all that died ? I actually read something where large numbers were seen fleeing the region...lol.. Who knew...lol.. heh

[@ey3z4ya]

​@@Tier1Norseman there's no such thing

[@deniseyeaisaidit]

Do we go plural, Bigfeet? 😂

[@archaicrevivalsYTchannel]

@deniseyeaisaidit , lol you guys.

[@BeltFedSelfDefense]

This is incredible footage. Thank you for uploading this time capsule.

[@dripworks6659]

FINALLY someone uploaded it, thank you!!

[@MatChew75]

I remember watching this actual footage as a kid I think on 60 Minutes and it was just absolutely terrifying to watch and when he got to the point where there was no more sky and it sounded like he was having a hard time breathing that was scary. It's like hell on Earth like an apocalypse is just happened

[@anakatrien2463]

My 16th birthday. I'll never forget it

[@SaoGage]

And remember this is but a bottom tier VEI 5 (1.2 cubic kilometer) eruption... It's absolutely staggering the scale of volcanism possible on earth. It's not even in the top 10 largest events of modern history.

[@7891ph]

Huh; several other sources list it as ~2.8 cubic kilometers.

[@edkiely2712]

Krakatoa made this look like a small burp!

[@hostrauer]

@@edkiely2712 And Tambora made Krakatoa look like a hiccup.

[@edkiely2712]

@@hostrauer My volcanic eruption is bigger than yours! Ha, ha,...!🙄

[@zenlikestate96]

Yep. Pinatubo in the Philippines a decade later was 10x this size. And hunga tonga from a couple years ago, they still dont even know how much was released. Really mind boggling.

[@lemorab1]

Did this chopper crew at the end of this video pick Crockett up? I can't find how he actually got to safety anywhere, just his footage, enveloping darkness, and then emerging from it. We know he lived, but how did he get out of there? Thanks if anyone knows.

[@seamripper0000]

Yes, a helicopter found and picked Dave up.

[@rh5563]

The ending is his own footage. Yes.

[@quietone748]

@@seamripper0000 And here I thought he'd died!

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

​@@seamripper0000oh thank god

[@BeltFedSelfDefense]

I would like to think he did in fact tell his children or even grandchildren about this.

[@DrHotelMario]

THANK YOU FOR THIS FOOTAGE. I remember seeing it in a documentary as a child and always wanted to see it again as an adult.

[@kindbluey]

Wow, Incredible Historical Footage. Thank you for sharing / uploading this Gem. :)

[@ko.ala.b]

footage of what? is this a volcano?

[@superthe]

​@@ko.ala.b Mount Saint Helens

[@BeeFunKnee]

I was living in Eugene Oregon at the time. Me and two friends from work almost went to the Mt St Helen area to camp overnight that weekend, but decided to just go to one of the 3 Sisters instead because it was closer and also because we had to be at work on Monday. As we were frying up bacon for our breakfast, Mt St Helen suddenly erupted. My two friends were yelling about something at the time when it happened, but I had heard an odd "low grumbling" sound, so I yelled for them to shut up for a second. That's when the low grumbling sound grew much louder. It sounded like either the city of Eugene below us had exploded somehow, or the whole world was groaning because it was in the process of finally dying. I'll never forget that loud sorrowful moaning sound as long as I live. I have yet to hear a sadder sound since then either. Yes, it sounded very "sad" to me. I've often wondered what the sound would have sounded like had we been north of Mt St Helen than south of it, too. It erupted towards the north in the opposite direction that we was in.

[@eoll6322]

Somehow, I fully understand your description of the rumbling sounding sad. So much so that it gave me chills. I can imagine not forgetting that sound ever.

[@markceaser8073]

I finally visited the site 20 years ago and the level of devastation still blows your mind away.

[@oldschoolman1444]

I could see the mountain erupting from my house in NE Portland, that was quiet the sight!

[@Cokercole]

Yeah, I was visiting my dad in the Parkrose district ..... N.E. Portland at the time it blew. After it calmed down a bit my friend had a 172 Cessna that we'd do fly overs. We weren't supposed to but we never got caught. It was still a no fly zone. That was an awesome sight. 😎

[@Religious_man]

Yeah I'm sure it was quiet watching it from Portland.

[@Khumbu0609]

Three days after the eruption a Spokane radio station came in loud and clear here in central California, like a local station. It was spooky listening to them warning people about a curfew, and not to drive over 35 mph, due to the heavy ashfall. On May 23, 5 days after the eruption, it snowed in a place that normally doesn't get snow even in winter! I'm sure it had to do with the volcanic cloud circling the globe.

[@earthn1447]

MG I didn’t realize. Amazing footage. He risked his life to show the world. I hope you healed.

[@E5PY]

I've heard about this film for decades, but this is the first time getting to see it. Thank you so much for sharing. *Thank you for capturing this scientific & natural wonder for us

[@susandavidson1691]

Wonderful beautiful nature doing her thing ❤. Love it

[@Hoyeons7]

Thank you for upload! this is very rare footage

[@ragnapodewski4694]

Really dangerous is inhaling the glassy dust.

[@matthewbooth9265]

Yeah you can get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis from doing that....which is quite serious and hard to say.

[@SpaceLord2025]

maries disease

[@cerovk6000]

@@matthewbooth9265😂 the more letters the more serious it is.

[@Blewlongmun]

@@matthewbooth9265 I love how you can break that word down and it's just describing the illness. "lungs are inflamed - smaller than microscopic silicon particles from a volcano - the dust is causing the lung issue"

[@PepRex]

He's still alive. Can't be that bad.

[@MikeS29]

It's amazing to me how 1980 looks like 1940 now.

[@JClaus1221]

Doesn't help that it's probably a 10,000th generation copy of the original film. If you go to the KOMO site or here on YT it look much clearer.

[@jtcali2086]

Well...more years exist now between now and 1980 as it did between 1980 and 1940...so yeah...kinda similar

[@oshmoogill]

The film has degraded

[@JClaus1221]

@@oshmoogill Not so much degraded as replicated thousands of times. the actual original film can still be seen on KOMO and is much clearer.

[@edkiely2712]

Well then, what's 1940 look like then? 1900? And 1900, 1860?

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[@bcshelby4926]

...I remember seeing this on KOMO 4 after I arrived in Seattle that evening. That scene with the slit of light going black and listening to his description is still haunting to watch this day. Was on the train in Yakima when the eruption happened and saw morning turn back into night. I still have a small jar of with ash on my desk that I collected that morning at the station.

[@TrainsAreReallyCool]

7:33 onwards is indescribably terrifying. The sight of the rising ash cloud with the unearthly roar of the wind and the squealing car alarm in the background is straight out of a horror movie. It genuinely feels like the end of the world.

[@DogmadawgMAMR]

It's crazy just the raw power it had

[@Pksparty2112]

I was a teenager living in Michigan. I remember being glued to the TV in disbelief

[@bindig1]

I live in New Jersey and remember grit on my car a few days after the eruption

[@jimbo9661]

Insane😮

[@thomaswatvedt5812]

the man thinks he's dead, please let him use a little foul language without being censored ffs

[@Nunya7211]

He also had no idea what the KZbin guidelines would be

[@CarsandCats]

For God's Sake let's hope your last words are blessings rather than curses.

[@DawnApon]

Yeah, I mean historically speaking who gives a fuck what words he uses, show the truth and let the context speak for itself as the times move forward.

[@keegannunley5444]

I was obsessed with Volcanoes as a young kid. There used to be a documentary about St Helens in the early 90's. It may have been part of an overall documentary about Volcanoes. One of the lines that I remember is, "The birds stopped singing." I haven't been able to find it since about maybe 2000, any remnants of this documentary is probably lurking somewhere in an archive collection or old VHS pile at a thrift store.

[@Ifoughtpiranhas]

I remember seeing this footage on the TV show 'That's Incredible' back in the day.

[@lorid2092]

I was on our deck, 3 miles east of Waldport, Oregon, heading out to work with my horse. I was 12 years old. At first, I thought it was the quarry blasting across from us on the next mountain to the east, but it didn't sound quite right!

[@darrenpaches3731]

I still have a large poster of Mt St Helens before the eruption. It was left behind by previous owners of the house we moved into in 1973 Edmonton Alberta.

[@jjaster853]

Interesting to me how I clicked into this video and watched it with the notion that he would die and yet stayed until the end to watch him live.

[@TessaRooney4EVER]

I remember driving up to the Adirondack Mountains (NY) from North Carolina June of 1980 to be a camp counselor. There was a fine dusting of ash that had drifted cross country from the eruption. It didn't register at the time, of course, the magnitude of what had happened.

[@eltreum1]

I was a little kid in SW WA when this happened. It was dark all day for days and we had to stay inside because there was ash everywhere. We flew over it in a Cesna a couple months after and it looked like another world. Even today you can still tell where the land was rearranged. The crazy part was the miles of downed trees illustrating the shape and path of the eruption. You can kind of see it in the helicopter shots. His car was indeed a couple feet from getting buried.

[@alainaaugust1932]

Dave is blest. By count 57 people died. There may have been more. All had been asked to leave the mountainside repeatedly. The last time the authorities stopped calling and sent someone to each cabin or campsite to strongly urge leaving. I recall one with the historic name Harry Truman on film debating them and saying he wasn’t leaving, if he died, he died. He died.

[@ReneeNme]

9:56 Lightning.

[@josephastier7421]

It's easier to create lightning in a volcanic ash cloud than in a thunderstorm. The cloud was full of lightning but being daylight it mostly went unseen.

[@ReneeNme]

@@josephastier7421 Lightning can occur in even large bomb blast clouds. Pretty cool.

[@josephastier7421]

@@ReneeNme There have been H-bomb tests where lightning comes out of the ground and curves around the fireball when it is less than one second old.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

People used to miss those lightning bolts because of the quality of the film and the brightness of the sky. I used to think they were hairs stuck to the film as it went by. GoPro cameras were almost 40 years in the future then.

[@GratefulBamboo]

I was 21 years old living in Forest Grove Oregon. . Only transportation I had was a 550four Honda motorcycle. Rode in ash for weeks. Still have bottles of that ash at home.

[@rr-gz4qt]

9:57 horizontal lighting strike at middle far right of cloud

[@Penny7143]

I lived in Northern California when this erupted and all of the vehicles and houses were covered in ash. It was crazy. I remember it burning my eyes so badly. I was, i think 9 years old

[@xfloodcasual8124]

The quality of audio gear in the old days is incredible. You don't need subtitles, unlike today's multi-million dollar Netflix shows.

[@jelly434]

Less the gear, more the competence, i suspect. Ability has been replaced with technology, and fallen short.

[@Guitarisforgrins]

LMAO, quality of gear has nothing to do with it...

[@matsmcmats]

Blame the people editing those shows not the equipment.

[@susandavidson1691]

Wish I could quadruple like 👍 this comment. OMFG in my fifties and HATE life as it is now (non depressive btw). I miss REAL TIME ❤

[@xfloodcasual8124]

@@susandavidson1691 Can always buy a good tube amplifier and have a healing time :)

[@killjoy8372]

Ive seen the part where he was already in the dark, but seeing the beginning and how far away he was only to still be in danger from the volcanoe is insane, literally cannot comprehend how powerful this was

[@henningeide8355]

As a Scandinavian, I only reasonable heard about Mount St. Helens. It's tragic but fascinating.

[@emshirtgrinder]

Thank you for posting

[@fmyoung]

Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"

[@airmike1271]

I remember as a child living in Littleton, Colorado, seeing a dusting of ash on all of the cars.

[@wealthychef]

Maybe change the title so people know what this is. Nobody knows Dave Crocket but everyone has heard of Mt St Helens

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

You’re telling me Davy Crockett filmed this? I thought he died at The Alamo

[@a-fl-man640]

king of the wild frontier

[@hardinmtp3]

Remember Mt. St. Helens!

[@flashy5150]

There’s no description for this video for younger viewers, but my guess is that it was the eruption of Mt. St Helen’s ? Am I right ?

[@doctorcrafts]

Wow. Genius

[@flashy5150]

@@doctorcrafts Thank you, maybe a “genius” might be willing and able to put a description on the video instead of making people guess. Yes, to you losers, I am a genius.

[@ethanthomson-prohaska3215]

Erm. I knew it was Mt. St Helens 🤓☝️

[@flashy5150]

@@ethanthomson-prohaska3215 Maybe you did “do-do”, not a lot of other people did🥴

[@usmustdie4peace405]

@@flashy5150 thanks for the info! As a foreigner im notmin the topic and thankful for your input! The other comments to you are just narcists! Shouldnt mind them

[@PiNkSpRinkLe1]

My husband brought me home a nightshirt with "world's largest ashhole" on it. He was in the air National Guard at the time.

[@SurvivalXBushcraft541CORE]

I was 5 living in Portland. I remember my mom putting a coffee filter on my face so I could breath.

[@populustremulus228]

Very cute, also very scary!

[@AexisRai]

>"uncut" >swearing is obviously cut

[@shaunl446]

Never saw the full footage. Thanks

[@feeberizer]

I lived in the Kent valley. Stood with my neighbors at the end of our dirt road watching. The most bizarre thing I'd ever seen until the 2nd eruption in August. I watched that one with my coworkers from Boeing's Kent Space Center.

[@danven1256]

I remember that day well. I lived to the south of the mountain and across the Columbia River in Rockwood near Gresham Oregon. I don't know what woke me up but I remember looking out my bedroom window and seeing that column of ash going up into the sky. Occasionally you could see a bolt of lightning around the column. Of course that was the first time that anyone in the Northwest had experienced something like that so it was quite exciting.

[@billiamc1969]

I remember watching this video as a 11yo kid on the local news back then...the whole family was captivated by the enormity of this calamity...

[@martinwhalley3286]

Pinatubo was a 6 on the explosivity index, Mt St. Helens a 5. Krakatoa 7, Yellowstone the highest 8.

[@tbyrdinhand3346]

What’s sad is he shows the wilderness before the ash cloud hit.

[@leemday5731]

Fear not fellow you tubers!this brave incredible man ...made it out alive !...God knows how!!

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

Their was a shortage of air filters in the U.S. after this happened.

[@ThunderPants13]

Cool footage. Of course what would you expect from Dave Crockett? I mean he IS king of the wild frontier.

[@MatChew75]

Two things I remember the most as a kid growing up was Mount Saint Helens explosion and the Challenger explosion. I remember they filmed a made-for-tv movie on the Mount Saint Helens disaster you know Hollywood had to get their two cents in on it, maybe like a year later after it happened. I remember the Challenger explosion so well because I was only 45 minutes away from Cape Canaveral so they let out my whole Elementary School to watch this event since it has a nation's attention because because of the eclectic group of people that were going up into space and there was two women on board. but it was just an absolute travesty and watching it in real time was one of the creepiest things I saw as a young child this was really impressionable on me. I forgot about this footage but it was everywhere. They didn't let us forget this

[@mgratk]

I kinda remember a tv movie about Mt St Helens. I was 10 years old when it erupted. Lived in PA but was super interested when it happened. Remember watching ABC news. If we got any ash in the Scranton area, I don't remember it. Challenger I was in 9th grade I think, in the library with my friends during study hall, supposedly doing research for papers, but really just talking quietly, when a teacher came in and pulled the tv cart out and turned on ABC, where we saw the replays moments after it happened.

[@kermitwilson]

@@MatChew75 they had a national contest for kids to “elect” a teacher to go to space. Cristis McCaulliffe won. How they really picked her, I have no idea. I was in the second grade and I’m pretty sure our class had the same experience as every other school, they wheeled in a tv on the the cart so we could watch it live. Then the shuttle exploded. They turned off the tv, pushed it into the hallway. The adults had a long conversation in the hallway. And then we had an extra long recess for most of the day.

[@billt6116]

🎵 Davey... Davey Crocket!, King of this film, right heeeere!" 🎶

[@mikejones-go8vz]

We have instructions in a Department of Conservation building on Mt Ruapehu here in NZ. It tells you where to go if there is a lahar ( mudflow from an eruption) ! Well it depends on the size of the eruption because after watching Mt St Helen, probably nowhere 😳

[@coasternut3091]

I read Dave Crockett and thought, "there weren't cameras then". Wrong person. I guess I'm just a good Tennesseean

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

This guy is not the King of the Wild Frontier. Maybe we could call him a clerk of the settled parkland.

[@BigBlackBe4r]

😂

[@doylehargrave233]

Ditto

[@Vingul]

I did the same, read it as Davy Crockett and 1890. Even that doesn't make sense by itself.

[@felisconcolor1112]

10:45-13:00 - this footage opened the NOVA episode detailing the events leading up to and after the Mt. St. Helens eruption; one of their finest episodes ever.

[@hoosiergrizz2742]

To have lived thru the Alamo, and later film this at such an advanced age. Amazing...

[@nou208]

My heart and soul goes out to those who were lost recording or just lost trying to survive it’s crazy to me that I live where this happened yet I wasn’t close to being around when this all happened

[@justinlane1980]

I was in my mother’s womb when this happened. I don’t remember it like it wasn’t yesterday.

[@johnathanrush4666]

Hey, me too! Lol

[@robindeputy]

This happened the same day I graduated from high school.

[@smudgey1kenobey]

I went there a year later. The ash filled the banks of the Toutle River for miles before getting into the blast zone. What I remember most was passing hills that were green on one side and completely scorched on the other, then the next hill, green on the side towards you, then the line and blasted on the side towards the eruption. The fallen trees looked like combed hair.

[@rdgurule]

My Dad brothers and I was fishing the Cowlitz R Barrier Dam just east of the mountain that morning.

[@kallsop2]

I was a junior in high-school when this happened and had relatives that lived in Longview WA just west of Mt St Helen's at the time. They used to fish for salmon in the Toutle River and send us smoked salmon fir Christmas. They said that the day it erupted they literally thought the world was coming to an end. My uncle said they knew what it was and went out to see and just stood there until the ash started falling. The said it was like being in a blizzard but the acrid smell of sulphur hit and the went back in for cover. I drove up to see Mt St Helen's in 2013 and looking at the mountain and seeing it in person and seeing the caldera from a distance was kind of surreal when you realize how much of the mountain is missing. Ive seen the effects of tornadoes and flooding growing up in Oklahoma, but it just made me feel small looking at St Helen's.

[@tonyb8660]

just being there at that time with equipment in 1980 for crissakes is a monumental trifecta