Mt St Helens Documentaries?
 

With the southen part of the state exploding and the end of the world upon us, I started thinking of all the great news footage from the May 18th eruption 25 years ago.

The best image - the cameraman who was on the mountain when it blew, and him running along in complete darkness. All you can hear is his heavy breathing, gasping for air - it was some pretty heavy duty footage. (Even more amazing - he lived!)

I picked up a disc when I was at the mountain a couple of years ago, and although it was cool, it was too short. I was hoping for something National Geographic length and quality or something.

So - does anyone know if there's a good May 18th documentarries (other than that Art Carney "dramatization" from 81).

Dante's Peak....just kidding ;)

I remember that footage where the cameraman ran for his life in total darkess, all he saw was a small glimpse of light near the horizon.

Just did a search and this one came up. Not sure if there are more...
http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/image.../SLG009141.jpg

Btw, MT St Helens just erupted at 12:03pm PDT today.

http://www.kgw.com/home_img/helens_erupts300x200.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/sci....msh.erupt.jpg

Re: Mt St Helens Documentaries?
 

Ok. Here is the footage of that cameraman. It's about half way in the media stream.

http://easylink.playstream.com/katu/...elens_blew.wvx

Re: Re: Mt St Helens Documentaries?
 

Yeah - thats it, thats the one. I remember that as a kid, and the footage was stunning. Ash everywhere, the rumble of the mountain behind him, car sized boulders dropping all around him. The guy had his camera going for 2 hours while he was running for his life - that guy must have big brass balls, man.