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#181 - Simon Kearns
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Mount Rainier is not the place where you get to switch your brain off and “just suffer.” The route moves, the glacier breathes, and a boot pack that looked safe two days ago can point straight at a crevasse. That’s why Simon Kearns’ new Mount Rainier round trip on-foot FKT, 3:43:50 car to car, stopped us in our tracks.
Simon is an RMI Expeditions mountain guide and a rising name in mountain running and skyrunning, with speed records that include Mount Hood and a recent fastest time on Mailbox Peak. We talk through the real story behind the Rainier effort: a last-minute pivot…
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