As they search a rugged post-eruption landscape in a quest for answers, amateur archeologists unearth new details about what happened on Mount St. Helens on May 18,1980. Their efforts reveal a deeper story about the life of Harry Truman, innkeeper at Mount St. Helens lodge, as well the lives of the 'volcano watchers' who were lost on that fateful day.
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