We all made it back to the parking lot!

[Bob Anderson]

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. A Seattle scientist and avid climber was killed
Tuesday when he fell into a crevasse on Mount Rainier.
Lee F. Adams, 52, was part of a four-man crew descending the mountain
on Emmons Glacier at about 13,000 feet Tuesday when the last person on
the rope tripped and fell. The men were swept off their feet, couldn't
stop their fall and plummeted about 100 feet into a 35-foot deep
crevasse, where Adams died on impact, according to a Mount Rainier
National Park officials.
Another climber was hurt, and the two others avoided injury when they
fell onto a false floor. Adams fell further, said park spokeswoman Lee
Taylor.
"Once you start sliding down slope it can be very difficult to stop
that fall and often teams that do fall end up sliding pretty far and
going into a crevasse and that's what eventually stops them and that's
what happened in this case," said Park spokeswoman, Lee Taylor.
"Big shock ... I'm just surprised it was Lee," said Fred Slater, a
member of the Washington Alpine Club, where Adams helped teach for
many years. "We all expected him to continue climbing well into his
60s. He was so fast. No one could ever keep up with Lee. He would out-
climb and out-hike anybody."
Adams was a research scientist at the Institute for Systems Biology in
Seattle with an expertise in molecular