My colleagues and I had no...

My colleagues and I had no trouble navigating the Sulphide Glacier and reaching the base of Shuksan's summit pyramid on July 2, 2004. But the pyramid itself left us scratching our heads. The central gully was partially melted out, so some rather serious rockclimbing was required, but we'd brought no rockclimbing protection. Additionally, we couldn't manage to shake two very slow climbers who shuffled past us low in the gully and proceeded to climb at a snail's pace upwards. So we shrugged, snapped a few photos 200 or 300 feet from the top, including this one, and headed back down to the safety of the Sulphide Glacier.