On this day, Mount St Helens
This day being May 18, 1980, a date I remember better than anyone’s birthday.
Somehow in all my Mount St Helens obsession, I had missed this full sequence. What makes it especially terrifying, is that it’s not from the side — this photographer was practically looking down the barrel of the gun. I had to track these down to reassure myself he’d survived.
(The only surviving she snapping photos that day was Dorothy Stoffel, filming and praying as her Cessna went into a steep dive trading altitude for speed to outrun the expanding ash cloud).
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