On BBC2 now (Sunday 9pm).

Oh

My

god!

Compelling viewing. The crater is beyond belief.

I wrote an essay about that volcano earlier this year. I would love to go.

It’s a very interesting volcano as it produces a type of lava called Alkaline lava, which is silica under-saturated, so has a very low viscosity and therefore moves very quickly.

On record, ta

Watching it right now.
Ok if I say ‘bugger that for a game of soldiers!’ 😯

Could I just say that if I ever fancied an “ology” of some sort it would have been vulcanology or glaciology?

Vulcanology? Spock would be proud.

I’m game, looks rideable. What tyres for alkaline lava?

😯 just 😯

(I’m game though, looks amazing)

Looks sketchy to me, keen though.

Ones that can survive temps of over 1000 deg C – forged from Komatiite (a form of lava we no longer see as the Earth isn’t hot enough any more).

Or wooden ones apparently.

Haha awesome. I want one.

A mate of mine was on that show, he’s a MTBer I’ll ask if he was thinking of riding it next time! He said the lava bomb/collection bit was hairy…