Erupting Volcano Keeps Going…and Going
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There is nothing quite so mesmerizing as watching an erupting volcano up close.
It feels a little like watching an amazing fireworks display that makes you want to cheer with each spectacular explosion.
Not only is it visually delicious, the constant roar and booms add just the right ambiance to make sure you remember you're in the presence of something dangerous.
Add a little lightening and thunder from an approaching storm, and you're quite certain you're in the middle of a "Lord of the Rings" episode. Mount Doom is right here. Where is that Hobbit and ring?
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Yes, Nyamulagira is still erupting 9 weeks after the earth cracked and shot up flames of lava around 300 meters high. Here are photos from last weekend. The eruption treks continue with confirmed groups of 8 or more until the eruption dies out. Click on the photos to see larger.
View of the eruption from the tented camp.
One of the trekkers, a volcanologist named Lorraine, chooses a safe spot for us to watch from.
Ranger Emmanuel and several other escort us from the camp to the viewing site.
Sarah Bendalow is excited about this erupting volcano!
The landscape is quite desolate, most of it covered in gravel-size pieces of lava.
The lava flow was hard to see until it started to get dark, and then chunks of lava could be seen floating down the river
In the early morning light, the lava flow could be seen a little.
To the left of this eruption is the first eruption from Nov 6 which died out around the first week of December, with this second one starting up immediately
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