Of ash and lava: in the intimacy of volcanoes

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They're typically variety sufficient to allow us to observe their whims. From the Moluccas to Vanuatu, getting near their jolts, listening to their respiration, and feeling their breath is an unforgettable expertise.

A volcano is to be earned. The spectacle of nature is usually given solely after hours of flight, boat or dugout, as a lot time spent on roads, then tracks which put the mechanics to check, to complete with a day of walking over troublesome floor on often-steep slopes. However the recreation is well worth the candle for many who aren't cold in the eyes! Within the Moluccas, the Dukono played with our nerves. After a climb with headlamps to “see the purple,” we needed to come back down in a rush, a storm having began at the prime. Soaked to the bone, regardless of good gear, we left at daybreak to admire, large eyed, the pageant of explosions that we had been listening to and feeling in our guts because the day before. With our heads above the crater, a miner’s mouth filled with ashes, smiling at the clouds rising in the direction of us like atomic mushrooms, we might have died there, blissful. The same ecstasy was waiting for us in Vanuatu. On the island of Tanna, the Yasur’s sprays have been a well-tuned firework show, with just a few minutes separating the belching of the hearth breather, whose bombs we have been rigorously monitoring in the sky. In Ambrym, the lava lakes of Bembow and Marum are engraved in our retinas. Like insects on the rocks above these monstrous cauldrons, we held our breath in entrance of their boiling, the odor of sulfur carried by the winds. The protecting providing of the virgin forest was favorable to us. For to have the best to see the earth stay, one must respect it. These volcanic experiences have been also human adventures, and we'll never forget the moments of sharing with the individuals dwelling on the foot of these magnificent monsters.

Because of Guy de Saint-Cyr, my accomplice, without whom nothing would have ever happened.

Sophie Reyssat

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