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US Vogue May 1980
Gia Carangi wears a red swimsuit with an alluring frill on the front. lively by Halston. In Antron/Lycra. Bag by Bottega Veneta.
Gia Carangi porte un maillot de bain rouge avec un volant séduisant sur le devant. vif par Halston. En Antron/Lycra. Sac Bottega Veneta.
Harry King hairstyle Way Bandy Makeup
Photo Francesco Scavullo
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Myung Hee's Marriage Vow
I, Kim Myeong Hee, refuse to be buried alive with Hwang Hee Tae. Lord, if something unexpected happens and we have to let go of each other's hands, please don't let the sorrow overwhelm the lives of those left behind. Even if the tears we shed alone fill up to our chins, please don't let us drown and give us the power and courage to swim safely throughout this life.
“After the Play Ends” by Sharp
Youth of May ｜An Answer to Your Prayer (Episode 24)
Mount Fujiyama of America...
Prior to 1980 a well known Cascade peak was often referred to as Mount Fujiyama of America. It’s conical snow capped shape suggested a strong resemblance to it’s cousin the real Mount Fujiyama in Japan. The American peak is Mount Saint Helens. After the major eruption on May 18,1980 the mountain got a natural makeover in the form of blowing off nearly 1,300 feet of its summit. The resemblance to Mount Fujiyama changed in a matter of a few short terrifying moments.
In a series of posts highlighting the notable peaks one sees and may walk near or around on their way north to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, we come to Mount Saint Helens. In actuality the PCT doesn't get all that close to St. Helens but on a clear July, August or September day it can’t be missed staring back as a hiker looks to their left. Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens share nearly the same latitude line. During the time of the pioneers the two would often get confused.
Mount Saint Helens was the first Cascade peak to be climbed strictly for pleasure and not for economic, military or scientific reasons. Thomas Dryer, who founded the Oregonian newspaper in nearby Portland was the first to go to the top in 1853.
The mountain is the youngest of the stratovolcanoes. Scientists have dated its beginning to nearly 40,000 years ago. However the summit that we saw on pre-1980 postcards only went back about 15,000 years. The visible part of the present day volcano only took shape about 2,200 years ago, long after the Ice Age. The mountain’s youthfulness protected it from a lot of erosion so it displayed a very symmetrically pleasing shape.
Prior to 1980 the mountain was the most volcanically active volcano in the lower 48. The local Klickitat tribe referred to it as Tah-one-la-clah or Fire Mountain due to its history of eruptions.
Finally on May 18,1980 the mountain literally blew its top. With an explosion that was the equivalent of 30 million tons of TNT 1300 feet of the top went into the stratosphere. This produced the largest avalanche in recorded history. 57 people lost their lives and destroyed 150 square miles of forestlands. A four mile long lava flow with temperatures between 600 and 1400 degrees Fahrenheit, melted the upper 45 feet of the Mount Saint Helens Glacier. Ash from the eruption flew as far as Montana but remnants of the ash clouds circled the earth and enhanced sunsets for weeks afterwards.
In 1981, my partners, Jim Peacock and Rees Hughes hiked from the Columbia River to Rainy Pass. We had no idea what we would find a year after the eruption. At least six inches of gray ash filled the trail. The landscape east of Saint Helens was gray. Not a lot of plants as they were suffocating under the blanket of ash. Walking along we kicked up dry clouds of ash and gave each other distance so as not to breathe too much of this stuff in.
After the eruption, the volcano shrank from 9,677 feet to its current elevation of 8,364 feet. The drama of the eruption is still evident but as the years go by nature has slowly been reclaiming the landscape. What was an ashen gray stump of its former self still retains some of that color but the forest is re-emerging in places. The area is now managed as the Mount St. Helens National Historic Monument.
Walking north the mountain no longer resembles Mount Fujiyama but is another sentinel leading the way north along the PCT. If the day is clear the view north and slightly west includes the ‘grand master’, Mount Rainier. West is St. Helens, and behind is Mount Adams. This is a landscape of BIG volcanoes that make up the ‘ring of fire’. That ring stretches to Mount Fujiyama.