American History

Melting Away

he white-capped world into which Hazard Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump clambered is disappearing. Ice cloaked the Cascade Range long before Mount Rainier’s volcanic cone rose 500,000 years ago. Although Rainier remains the most glaciated American peak outside Alaska, in the last

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