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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatch A Man Climb Into An Active Volcano
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. If something were to have gone wrong. It wouldve happened quickly, and catastrophically.
Kourounis, Cossman, and two guidesGeoff Mackley and Brad Ambrosespent four days at the crater's edge, descending twice into the Marum Crater with rock climbing gear, heat resistant equipment, face masks and three cameras. The footage was filmed with a GoPro, a Canon 5D Mark III camera and a Sony NX Cam.
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."
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/video-man-climbs-active-volcano
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Watch A Man Climb Into An Active Volcano (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Sep 2014
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love_katz
(2,578 posts)1. Far, far too dangerous.
Absolutely NO thank you.
Somehow, doing things like that almost seems disrespectful of Earth's power.
tclambert
(11,084 posts)2. Did he have a precious ring to destroy?
Frodo went into an active volcano barefoot. (I sometimes think Frodo's story gets a little unlikely at that point.)
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)3. amazing the speed at which the lava flows and sprays around in such volumes
would think it'd appear slower given the weight - just amazing
oftheforest
(45 posts)4. Geoff Mackley did similar descent
in September 2012 which a DUer posted about. I'm glad I bookmarked it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/extreme-adventurer-geoff-records-incredible-footage-inside-volcano_n_1911008.html
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)5. EarthUncutTV's Most Amazing Volcano Eruption Footage Shots!