Nothing was going to keep him from his grand plan: hiking into the newly formed Mount St. Helens crater. Mount St. Helens ca. He pulled over and peered into the windows, noticing an ice axe in the backseat⁠⁠—the kind required for summiting Mount St. Helens. But he did want to summit Mount St. Helens, and this long-haired, long-nosed man clearly knew the area. In a matter of minutes, Mount St. Helens had gone from Washington’s fifth highest peak to its thirtieth.