For everyone wondering, yes he's still alive.

@johnjones3699

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@RuththeTruther

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you too for sharing information we as humans needed!

@bernardmcmahon5377

3 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what I was thinking

@aquarius5719

3 жыл бұрын

I was annoyed at the end for not knowing what happened to him.

@NihilNovi

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.. What a cliff hanger to end this bit.. Keith rules!

I would have driven without pants.

@yoblazes

6 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking. That and fuck what was in the back of the bed, don't waste time closing it.

@713devereux

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@nelsonx5326

6 жыл бұрын

I sometimes drive around naked, alone, at night, while everyone is sleeping.

@lordaaa9945

6 жыл бұрын

You live in sin my son.

@RA-fn7co

6 жыл бұрын

Dudes out there photographing volcanoes that are about to erupt. I don’t think he’s the sharpest tool in the shed 😂

These cliff hangers are exactly why I won't subscribe

@mandarin1257

6 жыл бұрын

Jon Doe same

@TristanSilverwood

5 жыл бұрын

Go watch the actual show you cheap fuck

@1sadsexually2sadsexually54

5 жыл бұрын

Oh thanx what bullshit thank god i didnt get to the end lmao

@tannawannavannabittannawan7138

5 жыл бұрын

🖕🤪🖕

@cordellbolyard9188

5 жыл бұрын

yes me to

Turns out Keith is a time traveler taking his 1985 Mercedes GE280 back to 1980 to catch the eruption which also explains why he isn’t wearing pants at 8:02 am.

@stuartpickles6907

5 жыл бұрын

I was laughing when I seen the g wagon front end and realized it was from the future

@TheRustySavage

3 жыл бұрын

I wondered how a college kid could afford a luxury SUV from the future...also why he wouldn't be wearing pants in the middle of the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

@tomperkins5657

3 жыл бұрын

BAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Love it!

@peterbrown2112

3 жыл бұрын

Ok. I'm glad I'm not the only observant person that watched this.

@BOBBERtheKID

3 жыл бұрын

Well that would explain why he has a camera from 1986, Olympus OM-4Ti.

A very fine line between brave and stupid.

@andrewreid7582

6 жыл бұрын

Personally think this is far past that line into the realm of stupid.

@paponeable

6 жыл бұрын

Freedom Storm m

@assadsspanker6848

6 жыл бұрын

It's more like an overlapping.

@muckingfuddled9762

6 жыл бұрын

Freedom Storm correct 😉

@mikewilliams258

4 жыл бұрын

Not really.

He's very much alive and well. Keith Ronnholm is a Geophysicist. Perfectly fitting study for him. 😊

@equarg

3 жыл бұрын

Peaceful Wife He is now a legend in the volcanic community as his photographs are one of the most studied and views. But I bet a few people smacked him over the head for almost winning a Darwin Award there!

@maxpower19711

2 жыл бұрын

@@equarg those photos probably got him a lot of head too

@kimm6589

11 ай бұрын

Well considering that's what he was in grad school for at the time....

I was there when it erupted. I remember my mom was like, "come on we're going to grandma's! NOW!" I had never seen her drive so fast. We must have lived close enough to evacuate safely, maybe on the outskirts of it. I remember ash in the air. I was 6 years old at the time. I got a free "I survived mount saint Helens" tee-shirt from a store clerk. We never went back for our stuff.

@adamrainwater

3 жыл бұрын

Must've been hard to leave all of your stuff behind.

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

@Nathaniel Zhang I am pretty confident that you're right. Their stuff is probably gone by now.

@teresadrewicki9360

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!

@nuttypagal

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it is now safe enough to go back and get your stuff.

@magapickle01

2 жыл бұрын

I was 6 then too . Safely watching from west hills of Portland . It's always amazing to go see how everything has recovered . Now I know one of the volcanologist s from USGS that worked up there. I read all the stories of all the survivors from the blast . Pretty cool event for living here in the pacific northwest . Waiting for hood to go now cause that's where I live

It's worth every minute of travel to get yourself to the exhibit at the place where David Johnston died. At the end of a film about the events, a curtain is drawn back, revealing what's left of Mount St. Helens. It takes your breath away. One of the most spectacular sights you'll ever see. Guaranteed

@williscox6130

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea. Thank you for that information.

@Geebax2

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I have been there to the exhibit, and the final reveal leaves you with goosebumps.

@Definitemaybe0698

Жыл бұрын

Johnston’s ridge observatory. I live in Washington and your right. The curtains opening at the end of that film still takes my breath away.

@augustussohn893

Жыл бұрын

I live in Vancouver, and we go there every summer. We took a friend up there from LA who had never been there before. We of course sold the show to him big time "So amazing!" We get there and the entire area is covered in fog. We go through the film and they open the curtain: nothing but a wall of white cloud. So a couple of the employees walk out from the side of the curtain and hold up a small picture of the mountain sans clouds. "Ta-da!"

@Definitemaybe0698

Жыл бұрын

@@augustussohn893 🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh my gosh I wish I was there to see that.

*"At the last moment, he decides to Run"* *Gets in vehicle and drives off*

@gorutra

3 жыл бұрын

I was like why run if he has a truck. Lol

@cutiebunnyamber3447

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorutra you got my Point! HAHAHAH

@janwillems666

3 жыл бұрын

The real hero is the cameraman filming him driving away from the scene

@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden

3 жыл бұрын

I half expected this video to depict him running off and leaving his truck behind.

@woody4077

3 жыл бұрын

i think they ment it in a figurative sense not in a literal senmse

"Oh look, a massive cloud of ash and rock is coming towards me at high speeds, better put on my pants."

@cherryspice1011

3 жыл бұрын

priorities

@equarg

3 жыл бұрын

Kolas During disasters like this, it’s almost fascinating what people’s priorities are. Adrenalin tends to mess some people up in a what that makes priorities when facing imminent death. Pompeii captures this well in fact. For this guy...it was his pants apparently.

Can I get some closure? Damn

@outlawscar3328

6 жыл бұрын

He survived. petapixel.com/2013/02/26/photographing-the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens-from-10-miles-away/

@1rebelblood

6 жыл бұрын

I know right?!?!?

@haunanimartin459

6 жыл бұрын

There's a link in the description to the full episode: Make it Out Alive Mount St. Helens

@larryjohnny

6 жыл бұрын

Ironman saves him.. Check the description.. From cliff hanger to Spoiler alert..

@tehjamerz

6 жыл бұрын

KA- BOOM!!! He wasnr stuck on a cliff...

Really gonna make me look this shit up Smithsonian?

When I was young, in college, and looking for adventure, I may have done what Keith did. So glad he survived with many photographs and stories to tell.

Get in the truck and shoot the pics as you drive away. Skip the pants...

@Digitalhunny

6 жыл бұрын

*B uppy* - I was saying that to him as well! HA! Great comment.

That's so awesome, Kylo Ren took pictures of Saint Helens

@JKR-it4bc

3 жыл бұрын

Kiethlo Ren

@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden

3 жыл бұрын

Let the past die. Bury it in ash if you have to.

I was there as a park ranger. That is something I will never forget.

@ryankyle6093

Жыл бұрын

what about the mountain music festival?

Keith, your photographs are magnificent - I am grateful to witness them -- NATIVE, former resident of Mt. St. Helens slopes.

Drive all that way to photograph a mountain exploding, but then be more concerned about wearing pants....

@ELCADAROSA

4 жыл бұрын

But was his underwear clean?

@hummingbird2254

3 жыл бұрын

@@ELCADAROSA Probably not after seeing that ash cloud closing in !

@pnwRC.

3 жыл бұрын

@@hummingbird2254 100% truth!

@davidmurray6176

2 жыл бұрын

It was smart of him to put pants on as he knew the ash would be hot af if touching bare skin.

Had that taken place today: Kieth uploads his selfie in front of the blast while putting one pant leg on...

Oh wow. Gosh.he really risked his life. I'd say he didn't realise just how bad it was going to be. So glad he survived.💚

Worth of the Smithsonian: leaving the public wondering.

@landonmichaels2184

3 жыл бұрын

He lived

“...Keith decides to run!” *Keith Drives away*

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha!

He survived everyone! Now that’s a dedicated scientist!

The Mount St. Helens explosion is the most incredible event I've seen. For an entire mountain to simply be destroyed like that shows incredible power

@pauljstod8804

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. To move that much mountain 🏔 is awe inspiring power

@alukuhito

2 жыл бұрын

The entire mountain wasn't destroyed. It's totally still there. A big chunk of it is gone, but it's totally a still a mountain.

@SpaceLover-he9fj

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and it is rebuilding itself.

One Man’s brave, is another man’s Darwin Award.

Mind you, his photographs are the only photographic evidence we have of the exact moment of the lateral eruption of the volcano. In fact, it’s one of the only series of photographs we have of a lateral volcanic eruption in recorded history.

@SpaceLover-he9fj

Жыл бұрын

There are hundreds of phots of the lateral blast, there were many. Aside from Keith Ronholm, we have Gary Rosenquist, Ty Kearney, Robert Rogers, Harold Fostermann, Ken Seibert, Catherine Hickson, some climbers on Mount Adams, climbers on Mount Rainier, Jim Fitzgerald, Robert Landsburg, Andy Elliott, Trixie Anders, Barry Johnston, Dorothy and Keith Stoffel and even a videotape from Ed Hinkle, and countless more. Try searching “Alternate Angles of the Mt. St. Helens eruption”. If find imgur, click it, and you will sea some 70 rare photographs.

@SpaceLover-he9fj

Жыл бұрын

There were also countless more phots and videos of the eruption after the blast and the succeeding eruptions.

@DK-gy7ll

Жыл бұрын

Actually Gary Rosenquist was the one who took the nearly uninterrupted sequence of photos that showed the landslide and lateral blast in almost its entirety, which was later featured in National Geographic magazine. I didn't even know about Keith Ronholm's photos until decades later.

@kimm6589

11 ай бұрын

But now it's known from studying volcanoes that it's happened many times in the past.

Driving a Mercedes... at least he went out in style

@ogs1mpson609

3 жыл бұрын

He survived.

@AP-57

3 жыл бұрын

@@ogs1mpson609 r/Whoosh

@Manash.26

3 жыл бұрын

A person with a mercedes would not risk his life because he have a mercedes to drive in his future life.

@bavery6957

3 жыл бұрын

This Mercedes is the Ford F-150 of Europe...

@peanuts2105

3 жыл бұрын

B Avery not really, because the G- Wagon is built properly unlike the F-150 which is made from old socks

I remember watching about this on the history channel as a kid YEARS ago but he actually got to tell his story for himself

Gary Rosenquist of Randle, WA was at the same location. They were actually the group of friends who set up camp there after dark about 13 hours before the blast.

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

Super weird that this video of Keith Ronnholm mentions only Keith Ronnholm and not the others, the non-Keith Ronnholms. I wonder whether only Keith Ronnholm was available for this video. Maybe that is an actor playing Keith Ronnholm, and he just looks like Keith Ronnholm.

Gary Rosenquist and others who took iconic eruption photos were also at Bear Meadows, and successfully survived after fleeing.

I remember this day. I was kid out on the playground and the sun started getting blocked out by dark ash falling from the sky even though we were a few hundred miles outside of the blast.

cameraman. never. dies.

like all young students, he drives a class G convertible mercedes

@chopperchopperchopperchopp4897

3 жыл бұрын

He invented time travel and that’s how he paid for his 1985 g-wagon

@alukuhito

2 жыл бұрын

And has 90s hair.

theres also a set of photos from another journalist who wanted to do the same thing. difference was he got too close and was buried in the dust and pyroclastic flow. kinda cool to hear this guy actually got out of it safely!

@bruceprice3583

2 ай бұрын

I thought someone died taking photographs and was at least 7 miles from the volcano.

In case you’re wondering, Yes, his name , is still Keith

For anyone wanting to know exactly what happened after this video left off, here's the description from an article about the survivors of the disaster meeting up later: "He snapped photos between gathering his belongings and driving out. Through his windshield he saw a placid spring morning in the mountains, but in his mirrors an unprecedented disaster was unfolding. When the eruption led him into a black cloud of ash, he was unsure if he’d suffocate. He soaked a handkerchief and breathed through it. Unable to see, he eventually stopped in the pitch dark cloud. “The ash whispered like snowfall. Thinking of Vesuvius and Pompeii, I thought, ‘Six feet I’m dead, six inches I’m OK,’” Ronnholm said. Soon, several other vehicles appeared behind him, one of which was a logging truck shepherded by two men on foot who were feeling for the edges of the road. Ronnholm fell in line and the caravan eventually found its way to Randle, where they cleaned up in a church. Through the radio he got enough information to learn the cloud was drifting east and he was able to return home."

@larrykaufman8100

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information...Bless you!

@TheIdeasGuy

3 жыл бұрын

You’re a gentleman and a scholar ❤️

@johnbeckwith1361

2 жыл бұрын

You are the almighty in digital form.

@damonliu3870

2 жыл бұрын

you is the best commenter

*Alternate Title: Trailer to Make It Out Alive*

Even a volcano can't melt this guy's balls of steel.

And by the way, although they don't say so, that's not really Keith himself who's shown in this video.

Those Pictures he took would prove Invaluable to Science.

Guys, he's alive today

Next time everyone will try to catch another blast

@vinishayadav3966

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆 hi again 🙂

@chipskylark8869

3 жыл бұрын

I'm tryna catch a star in a baseball glove

@Grepes2

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh i told ya do yo work stop watching yt for 24/7

@Zenflyn

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it will prob be a mount etna

@michelelaraia7358

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zenflyn now

Is this the end of my subscription? yes.

Fact check: Keith survived, he used a 35mm Minolta to take the shots, he was actually camping on the NE side in Bear Meadow near Gary Rosenquist (who took the famous shot sequence) while the infographic places him on the NW side.

He is one very lucky lad to have suvived

Those shots ushered in the modern era of vulcanology.

@jeffgarberding4499

4 жыл бұрын

actually it was the ones that show time lapsed 1st the earthquake, then the entire side of the mountain slide down, opening up all that gas and steam pressure that sent that gigantic mushroom cloud full of mountain ,trees, and boulders the size of houses. Those were taken by I believe the seismographic team that sadly camped too close to the mountain.

Great video!

Can we talk about the camera man who was recording that student and whos never got full credits for staying behind to record from every angle. I did read somewhere he didn't make it. Sad, isnit!

@papiderpy

3 жыл бұрын

W h a t ?

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

@@papiderpy I think he's just being hilarious :)

Me hopping in the car, racing away from this giant cloud of ash. My wife: *!* "I left my phone, can we go back?"

It's amazing any of us survive our childhoods.

He made his escape in a Mercedes? He was lucky it started and he was able to get away.

I know the proerb "Children and drunkards have doubled guardian angels".He was a kid, David Johnston was grown up scientist.

The original invincible cameraman.

These reenactment scenes, I can't XD

Is the end of this video in the cloud too?

He survived guys

I was in the NOAA office on Lake Union talking to the NOAA Ship Oceanographer that was headed into Shanghai that morning. The radio watched, good friend Roger Ankney, first asked abou Mt. St. Helens. I knew nothing until about 30 minutes later after closing up shop when I tuned into 710 AM KIRO radio. Wow!. My cousin Connie, a flight attendant with United Airlines was SEATAC bound on a flight that passed a couple miles to the East of the mountain and spent a lot of time taking pictures (real cameras then) for passengers who promised copies. She never received any and only recently retired as she saw the pandemic shutting down airline travel. She's doing very well living in FL and trying her best to absent herself from the idiots begging to receive the SARS-COV-19 death virus. Stay safe amigas and amigos. Distance and mask wearing the two best tickets to surviving the idiocy that id dysfunctional America.

@fivehundrediq5212

2 жыл бұрын

How did you go from Mt. Helens to Covid in one Paragraph?

BRAVERY IS THE ACTION WITH WISDOM AND LOGIC

Got to be impressed with a graduate student driving a Mercedes G-wagon!

I was 5yrs old at the time living in Tacoma, WA. My friends and I would play baseball on the neighborhood intersection as each corner counted as a base. I remember looking into the sky at the towering plume and feeling infinitesimally small. Haven't witnessed anything like it since.

@WesAKAthemilkman

9 күн бұрын

Dang.

This vid gave me some good ideas of a book I’m writing about for my project we did it’s 4 chapters thank Keith you were lotta help in my book

Is there any more video of Keith without his pants on? Asking for a friend.

@papiderpy

3 жыл бұрын

👀

@a.i.e.c6310

3 жыл бұрын

👁️👄👁️

@ruby7950

3 жыл бұрын

🤩

@chopperchopperchopperchopp4897

3 жыл бұрын

Excuse me *what*

I wonder if his hearing is still intact. Some volcanic erruptions are sufficiently loud (170 DB at 50 to 100 km) to cause permanent deafness or hearing loss.

@zachwatson2824

5 жыл бұрын

HELL I WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT MY HEARING I'D BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT GETTING OUT ALIVE

@duanehorton4680

3 жыл бұрын

dB, not DB.

For an excellent chronological account of eyewitnesses and events in the days surrounding the eruption of Mt. St. Helens read 'In the Path of Destruction' by Richard Waitt.

This was very brave and very risky even if he used a vehicle bearing the -Good Star on All Roads-, there is no way to know how big these pyroclastic eruptions get. Well Done, Karl Themel

Amazing!!! I love it

Lucky for him the car started 1st try. Usually in a race against death, the car suddenly won't start.

@StevenSagerIsSuperEpic

Жыл бұрын

He must be a protagonist then. Plot armor.

In case you guys were wondering, its cold up on that that mountain, let alone at 8:32 am. It was easily in the 30's, its annual temperature is 47 degrees.

Fun fact:Keith's car was slowed down because he has balls of steel

this brave student captured the mount st Helen’s blast

Nice promo, Smithsonian!

This is why you always park your car facing out. Nobody got time for a k-turn in the middle of a volcanic eruption

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

nice!

pov: you speedrun taking pics while driving but failed to escape

I’m not going to find the rest of his story. In my mind his fate had already been determined and he didn’t make it. He was eaten by a bear as he exited the vehicle.

@neuralmute

4 жыл бұрын

But at least he was wearing pants!

@johnbeckwith1361

2 жыл бұрын

Enviros hadn't quite started stocking our forests with man-eaters at that time, same with filling our oceans with great whites and Salt-Crocs.....

@SpaceLover-he9fj

Жыл бұрын

He survived.

**Everybody gangsta's until Mount St. Helens erupted**

My sister and her boyfriend walked around the rim days before the blast. Their footsteps appeared on KOMO.

"Who does he think he is?" - "I'm Keith Hernandez!" (Seinfeld joke)

Brave? To face a volcanic explosion just for a photoshoot? Brave isn't the word.

@la7dfa

3 жыл бұрын

I bet he was happy he had his brown pants that day!

Another video has the name of the photographer as Gary Rosenqvist and he was not a student..Keith Ronnholm (a local resident) also appears in that video confirming that. For those unfamiliar with the University of Washington, apparently grad students in 1980 were driving Mercedes Gelaendewagen SUVs.....

I experienced that time and there was reddish brown dust around for a long time. That was the time we really should have been wearing face masks!

@atticstattic

3 жыл бұрын

And infringe on our freedoms? no thank you!

@peacefulwife5199

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, Keith took a cloth and soaked it with water, which probably saved his life due to the ash in the air. He was still able to breath. If he hadn't used the soaking wet cloth he would've suffocated. Very intelligent man.

@atticstattic

3 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Bayona I thought that was pretty obvious...

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

3 жыл бұрын

Correction: That was another time...

Stay tuned! Same BAT Time...Same BAT Channel!!

Pretty sure this "student" has a name - give him some credit geez

He is still alive if anyone was wondering

at the time i was 10 years old and living 525 miles to the south and i can remember one afternoon it was snowing ash and my dad telling us that the volcano blew up where we had just went camping a few months prior..

Eruption was in May, but the fireweed seen in the background in this reenactment doesn't bloom until August. Need to reshoot.

Remember how Ellis in L4D2 always talk about Keith and how COOL he is, then here he is...

@DarkFalconAnimations

3 жыл бұрын

@TommyBoyZ One of my subscribers is a Left 4 Dead fan. You know Julius Walper? I am a Portal fan. Do you like any of those games?

the shorts caught me off guard 😭

RIP Harry Truman... Anyone else remember that old man who refused to evacuate from the Lodge at what used to be Spirit Lake? Situated right under the section of the mountain that gave way....☠️ Never found him... He's buried under two or three hundred feet of debris and ash....

@benjaminbritt7862

2 жыл бұрын

His ashes are mixed in with the dirt. Totally blasted him into smithereens

Imagine he gets to the film development store to find they were all blurred... ahh the good old days...

I need to know the importance of the no pants part

@neuralmute

4 жыл бұрын

Just like everything else, volcano watching is better without pants.

@la7dfa

3 жыл бұрын

Quietly "reading", no pants. He is a DUDE.

The answer to why he wasn’t wearing pants is probably related to what he was “reading”.

so did he die or what?!

@outlawscar3328

6 жыл бұрын

He lived.

@m3m3x7

6 жыл бұрын

Ben Masta look it up...duh

@susieholdgraferferto3486

5 жыл бұрын

He died

@MrJufin

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he livrd

@SirKolass

4 жыл бұрын

He ascended as a phoenix

I thought it was Greg Brady from The Brady bunch in the thumbnail.

This wasn't bravery. Bravery is going against peer pressure. This was someone showing the y are awestruck.

Spoiler Alert: Cliffhanger video with no conclusion.

A good advert for Mercedes! When reliability counts 😃

If he was in his truck reading, then what was he reading that made him feel it was necessary to take off his pants... Keith probably should've left that part out of his story

Damn, the way it ended lol

@gregorypeterman6216

4 жыл бұрын

Thumbs down!

At the last possible moment Keith decides to Ronnholm 1:09

I wouldn't have bothered putting my pants on, cause I would've needed new ones after that.