Color photos shot in 1980 from the cockpit of a Cessna 150 reveal the magnitude of Mount St. Helens' ash and destruction amid volcano's eruption.

A Portland woman, who finds old cameras and develops forgotten film, discovered unseen photos of the Mount St. Helen explosion. (Photo courtesy Kati Dimoff) By Ashli Blow, KIRO7.com June 17, 2017 ...

WASHINGTON STATE – On this 45th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption, the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is offering a glimpse of the devastation that led to the ...

Mount St. Helens, the largest volcanic eruption in US history, was commemorated this weekend, 45 years after its eruption, which killed 57 people and spewed ash across 11 US states and 5 Canadian p… ...

5/29/1980-Mount St. Helens, WA: An army helicopter crewman takes a last look at the desolation caused by the Mount St. Helens volcanic explosion 5/18. Photo: UPI cas/Ron Edmonds/Getty Images ...

The USGS reported in 2023 that Mount St. Helens is the volcano in the Cascade Range that is "most likely to erupt again in our lifetimes," but the exact timing can't be predicted so far in advance.

The resulting images often showed clouds as they swirled around the snow-capped summit of Mount St. Helens, and ever so often, one of the USGS geologists in a frame as they reloaded the camera ...

CASTLE ROCK, Wash. — In this week's Let's Get Out There, it's been 43 years since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. We look back at how the landscape changed back then, and how it continues ...

St. Helens appears mostly tubelike, said Moran, while Mount Rainier's magma is probably more like a vat of molten rock not that far beneath the surface.

So we reached out to the Mount St. Helens Monument and we asked permission, and we gave them a full rundown of where we were going to go, what we were going to do, we were going to be very respectful.

The resulting images often showed clouds as they swirled around the snow-capped summit of Mount St. Helens, and ever so often, one of the USGS geologists in a frame as they reloaded the camera ...

May 7-11: Mount St. Helens reawakens The volcano's two-week break came to an end as bursts of steam and ash reached 13,000 feet on May 7, 1980, while the bulge continued to move and quakes shook.