The glacier gets so heavy that it begins to move ... Speaking of peaks… we’re standing on a pyramidal peak. Remember how an arête forms between two corries? When three of more corries erode ...

Shuksan means ‘High Peak’ in the Lummi language ... which involves a straightforward glacier climb followed by a scramble up the Summit Pyramid. The least technical of the main routes ...

“By definition, it is a nunatak, which is simply a peak of rock sticking out above a glacier or an ice sheet. This one has ...