HAPPY MT.ST. HELEN eruption day

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and you thought you had a bad day...

On the morning of May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg hiked 7 miles from the summit of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades mountain range. As the lens of his camera viewed the snowy cap of the mountain and lush green forests of Skamania County, Washington, Landsburg intended to photographically document the change steadily occurring.

.......................Landsburg, Johnston and Truman were three of the 57 people killed by the eruption. Had Johnston and his monitoring team not resisted heavy pressure to reopen the area, the USGS believes the death toll would have been in the hundreds or even thousands.

Seventeen days later, Landsburg's body was found with the film slightly damaged from the heat, but intact. The photos of the eruption and approaching wall of ash were published in the January 1981 issue of National Geographic.

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HAPPY MT.ST. HELEN eruption day