Are you planning to climb Mount St. Helens? Avoid the crater rim or you risk death

Andy Goodwin stationed himself at the summit of Mount St. Helens last Saturday, where he usually spends several hours a week educating climbers about one of the Pacific Northwest’s most spectacular volcanoes.

Goodwin, a volunteer steward at the Mount St. Helens Institute, watched as two climbers reached the 7,300-foot summit, brushed past him and sat right on the edge of the crumbling crater rim, their feet dangling into the mouth of the active volcano . volcano.