This is a picture of the mountain about 10 years after the eruption, when a helicopter took us inside the creator to see boiling hot waterfalls, rivers of the weirdest looking water, poisonous gas vents, a bleak gray, baron landscape void of anything resembling the Earth I was familiar with. Imagine it all began this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens