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...