The Rev. Thomas E. Jessett, vicar of a Seattle Episcopal chapel, took the phone call himself: his son Arthur, 20, a University of Washington junior, was trapped in a glacial crevasse on 9,671-ft. Mount St. Helens. The vicar's response: "You have to take risks when you climb mountains. I guess this is one of them." Then he added: "He'll want us there."
That night at the foot of St. Helens, 170 miles to the south, Jessett and his wife heard the story from their son's three companions. Crossing a glacier at the 8,000-ft. level, Arthur had shouted, "I'm slipping!" and...
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