That would be my wife and I on Monday...
We were way late summiting a 13,000 foot peak ( nearly 1PM ) and just like I warned her, this particular summit likes to make it's own weather and it did, looked sketchy in the last 600 feet of vertical. We were on top for about 2 minutes when up walked this young woman....her hair looked like "Young Frankenstein"...I about sh_t my pants. I told her, my wife and the small group headed up to get down to lower ground asap! The hairs on my arms were standing straight up and my wife and I shocked each other when I handed her a snack...not good.
To make matters worse, there was no way to retreat below 12,500 for at least two miles, our hairs stood up for over an hour! Luckily, it was all in-cloud with no ground strikes but that was one of the worst ones I had experienced in over 15 years. The other one was when my ice axe zapped my thumb on a climb, scary...
As for shooting it, while spectacular, it is hard to get good shots with some form of context and obviously, it can be quite dangerous. A day lighting trigger is pretty handy. I once used a slave to trigger a strobe on a sunflower field when the lighting struck, AP ran that all over the globe....
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