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Ingraham Glacier lies on the southeastern flank of Mount Rainier, flowing from the summit ice cap east between Gibraltar Rock and Disappointment Cleaver before curving southeast near the Cowlitz Glacier and draining into the Cowlitz River. Named for early Mount Rainier enthusiast Edward Sturgis Ingraham, it once extended with the Cowlitz Glacier far from the mountain, reached a joined terminus during the Little Ice Age, and has retreated more than a mile since about 1850 despite a brief late-20th-century advance. It is also known as the site of the deadliest mountaineering accident in American history, where eleven climbers died in an ice fall in 1981.
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