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Twilight of the gods at the Bocca Nuova The hornitos at SE - crater 6.11.1999 |
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High altidude impressions in the morning light. The ascent of the Mt. Etna in November was dominated again by snow and ice. Althought good weather conditions made it possible to get a clear view inside the active Bocca Nuova. During our ascension we could feel all the times strong tremors. When we arrived at 2:00 a.m. inside the Bocca Nuova the tremors were so hard that we had sometimes difficulties to stay in balance. But the uprising lavashreds about 300 meters made us more and more couriosly. During an eruption break we converged more nearer as allowed to have a view inside the glowing bowl right at the place of the little vent on the photos. The Bocca Nuova (3260 m ü NN)
This pictures were developed inside the Bocca Nuova in a range of 70 meters. The ejecting lava was accompanied with a very loud hissing sound which remined me straigt to a turbine of an big aircraft in comparision. During the night the contra fire came suddenly from space, because the meteor stream 'Taurides' had the maximum in this night. If you can take part to such an archaic spectacle you will assert that this place is one step nearer to the lap of the gods.
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At the Hornitos (East base of South East-crater)
Continious resingning lava made this place to a playground for grow up people. Here you learned a lot about this hot liquid, which arose continously out of the base.
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The point of origin of the artwork 'Heidls matress'. The isolation matress made it impossible for the could air to cool down the bottom surface. For this reason the lava boulders burned into the matress.
A downgoing lavaflow in the western part of Etna did cut an important road and destroyed the young forest.
Eruption of the Bocca Nuova |
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| View in the former protection rifugio Torre d'ell Filosofo | ||||
The basement |
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