Watch A Man Climb Into An Active Volcano. George Kourounis rappelled nearly 400 meters (1,300 feet) into an active volcano to have the adventure of a lifetime and, of course, take a selfie.
Kourounis is an adventurer and storm chaser who specializes in documenting extreme weather conditions. With fellow explorer and filmmaker Sam Cossman, the pair climbed deep into the Marum crater, located in an active volcano on the South Pacific's Vanuatu archipelago. George Kourounis stood so close to the fiery pit of churning lava that at one point a splash of it melted a hole in his protective suit. "When you see that shot of me [in the video] looking like a little silver dot, next to what appears to be a waterfall of lava, that was an extremely dangerous spot to be standing," Kourounis told the Huffington Post.
"It was a bit scary. As Cossman wrote in a summary for the Youtube video, "More people have visited the moon than the fiery bottom of this spectacular and deadly place. " Iceland's 'Pompeii' emerging from the ash. 3 September 2014Last updated at 19:43 ET By Joanne Whalley BBC, Iceland A lava eruption near Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano has raised the spectre of flights being grounded by a plume of ash.
But 41 years ago, an Icelandic eruption did much more than that, burying hundreds of houses. Today, the "Pompeii of the North" has become a tourist attraction. "Wake up, something terrible has happened on the island! There is an eruption! " Now Helga runs a memorial cafe on the island, commemorating that night. "I ran to the window in front of my bedroom and could see a column of fire reaching from the earth to the sky. Helga's family fled the house and headed to the harbour to escape by boat. Incredibly, almost all the island's 5,000 inhabitants managed to escape. 36 feared dead and more injured in Mount Ontake's explosion of ash and gas. Mount Ontake started erupting at lunchtime on Friday spewing out small rock and ash over a two-mile wide areaPolice confirm at least 36 hikers have been located in a state of 'cardiac arrest' and are feared deadThey are Japan's first deaths from volcanic eruption since 1991, when 43 people died at Mount UnzenRescue efforts with army helicopters were used to airlift survivors from the mountain sideThe volcano is 230km west of Tokyo but has not yet caused any disruption to flights in and out of the cityJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has instructed the military to rescue the hikers from the areaRescue efforts have now been called off due to rising levels of toxic gas near summit and approaching nightfall By Darren Boyle for MailOnline and Corey Charlton for MailOnline Published: 09:30 GMT, 28 September 2014 | Updated: 15:51 GMT, 29 September 2014 At least 36 people are believed to have died when Mt Ontake erupted unexpectedly on Saturday.
Scroll down for video 1. 2. 3. 4. Volcano eruptions have deep origins. 29 April 2014Last updated at 07:30 ET By Simon Redfern Reporter, BBC News The ferocity of Kilauea's eruption is linked to the chemical balance in the mantle below Hawaiian volcanoes sometimes erupt as gentle flows of lava, but other times produce spectacular lava fountains.
New data from centuries-worth of eruptions suggest that the differences reflect fluctuations deep in the Earth. Reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists considered how magma rich in volatile elements rises rapidly and erupts as high fountains. Historical eruptions follow variations in the chemistry of Earth's deep mantle, they report. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote This work is the first to show a link between the nature of the volcanic melts in Earth's mantle and surface eruption styles” End QuoteDr Marie EdmondsCambridge University Understanding the hows and whys of volcanic eruptions is crucial if these types of geohazard are to be properly assessed. Spectacular shows. Animated guide: Volcanoes. Watch a volcano exploding: Amazing 360 degree interactive panorama shows eruption on the remote Kamchatka peninsula. Russian team creates incredible interactive panorama of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano in the Russian Far EastIt is one of four volcanoes simultaneously erupting on the Kamchatka peninsulaShot from variety of locations, the incredible panorama can be zoomed and panned like Google Street View By Damien Gayle Published: 14:39 GMT, 1 February 2013 | Updated: 17:39 GMT, 1 February 2013 This is the moment a volcano erupted in the snowy wastes of Russia's remote far east.
The stunning pictures were captured by a Russian film crew who swooped across in a helicopter and braved roasting hot pyroclastic flows on the ground to create an immersive, interactive panorama. Plosky Tolbachik is one of four volcanoes, all within 110 miles of each other, that have been active simultaneously on the peninsula in Russia's far east since late November. Scroll down to try the incredible panorama for yourself.