VANCOUVER, Wash. - Mount St. Helens climbing permits go on sale for the 2011 climbing season beginning 9:00 a.m. Feb. 1, 2011 on Mount St Helens Institute's website at mshinstitute.org. These permits ...

• About 14,500 people a year climb Mount St. Helens though the vast majority — about 13,000 — do so in the summer. • About 1,500 people climb the volcano during the winter season of Nov. 1 to March 31 ...

Every $22 permit to climb Mount St. Helens is sold out through mid-September. Reservations for peak summer hiking days began hitting the 100-people-per-day limit in early spring. "The day they posted ...

Brittany Fintel knows she cheated death after falling more than 300 feet while climbing Mount St. Helens. The 32-year-old Omaha, Nebraska native and Navy veteran lost her footing while climbing the ...

Brittany Fintel says she really thought she was dead the moment she slipped. A woman survived the nearly impossible after falling down hundreds of feet while climbing on Mount St. Helens. Brittany ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. – More than eight months after he went missing, officials confirmed they found the remains of a young Japanese man who set out to hike Mount St. Helens. Yosuke Onishi, 26, of Japan, ...