Nyong’o is real dangerous volcano two
million people living around there could
suffocate of carbon dioxide but in the
night
you realize this more behind that
curtain of steam and volcanic smoke for
me there were no doubts I want to go
down there and it was a very special
moment to be so close to hell thank you
for your interest this evening and I
would say we just begin this is me in
the tender age of 15 years and I was
already obsessed with volcanoes i bucked
my parents until they went with me to
Etna in Sicily and when I looked into
the big four Jena Grande I was kind of
lost I changed my life and I got the
desire to always climb down into these
craters and it took me until 99 for my
ultimate volcano kick when I directed an
expedition to one who are too into a
deep life abyss was probably the most
violent lava lake in the world it’s
about 1500 feet deep and it was a very
special moment to be so close to hell
you felt you felt yeah I like directly
on the magma chamber I mean you felt the
vibrations the shocks it was like a big
washing machine and a heavy gear and
yeah it was just amazing and bombs were
flying around you so I got so addicted I
always wanted to see the biggest lava
lake in the world and this is the travel
I want to take you on and I would take
you now into the heart of Africa into
the Democratic Republic of Congo and
worse into the war driven kevo province
now I will do an exclusion to 2002 there
was a big eruption of nero congo
eight-mile fissure opened and the lava
lake drained and flooded Goma city and
4,500 houses were destroyed 14 villages
170 people lost their lives and we had
400,000 refugees so that means near
Agong was real dangerous volcano and it
has very little monitoring because the
Congolese they love to recycle the
instruments of the scientists there are
solar panels and batteries all things
they can use for a better in a better
way a few parts of the city are life
threatening invisible gas Springs become
like natural traps for kids and animals
and this is directly on the market you
have these gas traps filled with carbon
dioxide these are called masuka’s even
worse are the dangers of the lake EBU
it’s one of the world’s exploding lakes
there are only three of them and Leakey
who is by far the biggest in it steps
there are huge quantities of gases of
carbon dioxide and methane over half a
billion tons are stored there and an
earthquake or a volcanic eruption might
destroy the equilibrium and it could pop
up like a shaken bottle of carbonated
water so it’s very very dangerous so you
could fear tsunamis or the people two
million people living around there could
suffocate of carbon dioxide eliminate
catastrophe of that Lake would be really
unimaginable it happens every thousand
years every millennium that all life is
extinct around that late but the
surrounding of the volcano is very
fertile
so you find almost everything you can
imagine good fruits all sorts of
vegetables and people already cut the
wood on in the fields and then this is
transported down with very strange
wooden bikes they are called kudos and
they are loaded up to 50
hundred pounds and so they raise down
these gentle slopes of these volcanoes
and provide the markets with all you can
imagine so a chuga door can do a quite
good living it’s like a truck driver in
our society they carry down everything
like this charcoal it’s a wanted
commodity in Goma because they cook with
it but they are uncounted illegal
charcoal kiln in the forest and it’s an
immediate threat to the trees down there
despite there are these layers of
methane in the depths of the lake so if
that would be better organized you could
directly save the mountain gorillas
living around these volcanoes because
these forests are the last remaining
areas where these mountain gorillas
survive here you see the giant flanks of
this volcano it’s a huge caldera with a
diameter of sweet waters of a mile
these are the first views for us down
there to the biggest lava lake so we
have to make our thoughts how we get
down there but first we have to get up
there so Nero Congo is 11 more than
11,000 feet high and we had to carry a
lot we have to carry everything up there
water food scientific gear climbing gear
so we needed 107 porters to do all that
they were very happy for them it’s a
great opportunity and yeah they were
amazing I mean they could do in a day a
month’s salary so these jobs were really
seek by the porters and we had of course
guards because this is kind of a
conflict area and the mountain is always
taken again by rebels and it happened
short after our expedition that the
mountain was taken by the rebels again
and I think it’s still not freed I mean
the National Park doesn’t have control
over it and more than 130 Rangers have
been killed in the last 15 years so it’s
a big problem but
our porters have been in a very good
mood up to the top where it was quite
cold it’s getting down to freezing
temperatures because of the altitude and
then you see in the first moment not
very much I mean everything is filled up
with gas and we thought well that’s not
a nice surprise I expected to to see
something blowing and and whatever but
in the night you realize well there’s
more behind that curtain of steam and
volcanic smoke and then it opens and you
see it’s like a giant theater you see
this incredible lava lake illuminating
the steep walls of that caldera and we
built up our base camp on the summit
this is our cooking tent always with
this incredible view down there and it’s
always changing the surface of that lava
lake so it’s a real incredible spectacle
this is Ken Sims our Wilkin ologist and
he was a former mountain guide and he
was doing all the rope work to get down
there we looked at the first terrace
which is only a small relict
the second one is much bigger and the
third one is was the lava lake situated
in the midst and this is where we aim to
we wanted to stay there one week the
scientists had a lot of experiments
lined up and here we construct a
Tyrolean to get all the scientific gear
down there so we made a campsite on the
second terrace which had its advantages
because it has a ground heating it was
quite warm and very very pleasant
compared to the summit and of course we
were closer to the lava lake so it was
absolutely mesmerizing so I knew that
would be my home for the next week and I
was really happy to finally be so close
to the volcanism and we observed this
kind of miniature plate tectonics in the
lake so it was really amazing just to
observe what’s going on the hottest lava
in the world
2,400 degrees Fahrenheit that’s probably
the reason why this lava lake is so big
and here the scientists are measuring
the radon which comes from really big
depths from the magma chamber and has a
decay rate of three point eight days so
they can make very valuable analyzes
about the love of this volcano but
suddenly the scientists realized wow
there could be overflows of that lava
lake and it could flood the third
Terrace and it could flood quite hefty
and and you don’t know exactly how
stable these cinder cones of that lava
lake are and that kind of relative ated
their will to go down to the third
Terrace so for me there were no doubts I
want to go down there and that was my
goal but the discussions came up and the
scientists decided to go already after
one day and I couldn’t believe that so I
have a little sequence with a scientist
well I don’t would like to go down mr.
garrison I just wonder what um probably
won’t be going down to the third Terrace
I’m saying you need a lot of ingredients
for a good volcano picture any good
activity you need a good visibility you
have to have patience and you have to
have to out sit the right situations
well I had a big problem and you see I
mean it was really not a nice weather
situation I admit the weather was really
poor the first day it was acid rain and
you almost couldn’t breathe because
that’s so called vaak volcanic smoke
usually you take gas masks but if you
hard work like here and if you have to
carry up equipment you can’t breathe
through the gas masks all the time
because of the resistance but everyone
left after that one day and
even my friend and assistant he became
ill and had to go up so I had no other
choice than to stay down there well and
and and I had nothing better to do than
to photograph myself but then I looked
up and looked this beautiful kind of
Lake lit clouds and in the moonlight and
I thought well that’s wonderful to have
the whole crater for myself but these
were my only bodies down there – white
necked Ravens and they immediately stole
my food when they realized my tent was
open but I was glad for them because
otherwise it’s kind of a Death Zone
insects fly in the night to the lava
lake attracted by the light and then
they burn somehow their wings and they
fall down and everything is covered by
death animals so next day I climbed up
to the first terrorist to discuss with
Ken willing to take the risk himself ken
asks Carsten to collect the zero-age
sample from the third Terrace they will
need to set two lines one to get in
the other one to get out the lava
overflows up on the summit ken will spot
the levels of the lava for the climbers
on the final Terrace who can’t see the
surface of the lake themselves because
they are below it please look at him
yeah the activity is over on your side
of the wall there
he’s going back down we’ll come on good
job yeah we have been I have been very
very lucky as you saw in the film we
climbed down to the third Terrace that’s
the view if you are down that the so
terrorists actually you can’t see into
the lava lake up there so it’s kind of
mandatory that you have to climb that
cinder cone so and then you have these
surprises because there’s something like
an infrasound it Shooks your whole body
on but you can’t listen to it it’s very
very strange I have never experienced
that before I imagine the whole crater
is like a loudspeaker and the membrane
is lava lake and if there are big bursts
of gas you get the kind of a resonance
and it shakes your body so very very
strange and you feel tiny tiny tiny I
mean you see here my friend on the
cinder cone and the lava lake is huge
compared to that and the energy going
away from the lava lake is unbelievable
and hard to imagine so it’s a huge
energy source and there are disgust
bubbles coming out of that leg and
ripping apart this liquid stone bubbles
maybe 80 feet high and one day later ken
came really down and brought us a
thermal suit I was testing it first I
have to say these thermal suits are
quite uncomfortable because they are
insulating it’s very warm even if it’s
not warm outside so so and you have a
very restricted view so very limited so
if there’s lava flow or if bombs are
flying it’s quite dangerous but you
won’t believe next day also Ken came
down to the third Terrace and actually
it is him here on the top of the cinder
cone and he probably won’t forget that
for his life
I would have loved to stay much longer
time unfortunately we were restricted
and we had to go up again and made it up
to the second terrace to all these kind
of very difficult parts with second
terrorists taking apart and there’s a
lot of rockfall and this is my last
pictures of this nasty volcanic smoke
walk as beautiful as it can be and yeah
I hope to see you maybe again in future
thank you very much
you
you
million people living around there could
suffocate of carbon dioxide but in the
night
you realize this more behind that
curtain of steam and volcanic smoke for
me there were no doubts I want to go
down there and it was a very special
moment to be so close to hell thank you
for your interest this evening and I
would say we just begin this is me in
the tender age of 15 years and I was
already obsessed with volcanoes i bucked
my parents until they went with me to
Etna in Sicily and when I looked into
the big four Jena Grande I was kind of
lost I changed my life and I got the
desire to always climb down into these
craters and it took me until 99 for my
ultimate volcano kick when I directed an
expedition to one who are too into a
deep life abyss was probably the most
violent lava lake in the world it’s
about 1500 feet deep and it was a very
special moment to be so close to hell
you felt you felt yeah I like directly
on the magma chamber I mean you felt the
vibrations the shocks it was like a big
washing machine and a heavy gear and
yeah it was just amazing and bombs were
flying around you so I got so addicted I
always wanted to see the biggest lava
lake in the world and this is the travel
I want to take you on and I would take
you now into the heart of Africa into
the Democratic Republic of Congo and
worse into the war driven kevo province
now I will do an exclusion to 2002 there
was a big eruption of nero congo
eight-mile fissure opened and the lava
lake drained and flooded Goma city and
4,500 houses were destroyed 14 villages
170 people lost their lives and we had
400,000 refugees so that means near
Agong was real dangerous volcano and it
has very little monitoring because the
Congolese they love to recycle the
instruments of the scientists there are
solar panels and batteries all things
they can use for a better in a better
way a few parts of the city are life
threatening invisible gas Springs become
like natural traps for kids and animals
and this is directly on the market you
have these gas traps filled with carbon
dioxide these are called masuka’s even
worse are the dangers of the lake EBU
it’s one of the world’s exploding lakes
there are only three of them and Leakey
who is by far the biggest in it steps
there are huge quantities of gases of
carbon dioxide and methane over half a
billion tons are stored there and an
earthquake or a volcanic eruption might
destroy the equilibrium and it could pop
up like a shaken bottle of carbonated
water so it’s very very dangerous so you
could fear tsunamis or the people two
million people living around there could
suffocate of carbon dioxide eliminate
catastrophe of that Lake would be really
unimaginable it happens every thousand
years every millennium that all life is
extinct around that late but the
surrounding of the volcano is very
fertile
so you find almost everything you can
imagine good fruits all sorts of
vegetables and people already cut the
wood on in the fields and then this is
transported down with very strange
wooden bikes they are called kudos and
they are loaded up to 50
hundred pounds and so they raise down
these gentle slopes of these volcanoes
and provide the markets with all you can
imagine so a chuga door can do a quite
good living it’s like a truck driver in
our society they carry down everything
like this charcoal it’s a wanted
commodity in Goma because they cook with
it but they are uncounted illegal
charcoal kiln in the forest and it’s an
immediate threat to the trees down there
despite there are these layers of
methane in the depths of the lake so if
that would be better organized you could
directly save the mountain gorillas
living around these volcanoes because
these forests are the last remaining
areas where these mountain gorillas
survive here you see the giant flanks of
this volcano it’s a huge caldera with a
diameter of sweet waters of a mile
these are the first views for us down
there to the biggest lava lake so we
have to make our thoughts how we get
down there but first we have to get up
there so Nero Congo is 11 more than
11,000 feet high and we had to carry a
lot we have to carry everything up there
water food scientific gear climbing gear
so we needed 107 porters to do all that
they were very happy for them it’s a
great opportunity and yeah they were
amazing I mean they could do in a day a
month’s salary so these jobs were really
seek by the porters and we had of course
guards because this is kind of a
conflict area and the mountain is always
taken again by rebels and it happened
short after our expedition that the
mountain was taken by the rebels again
and I think it’s still not freed I mean
the National Park doesn’t have control
over it and more than 130 Rangers have
been killed in the last 15 years so it’s
a big problem but
our porters have been in a very good
mood up to the top where it was quite
cold it’s getting down to freezing
temperatures because of the altitude and
then you see in the first moment not
very much I mean everything is filled up
with gas and we thought well that’s not
a nice surprise I expected to to see
something blowing and and whatever but
in the night you realize well there’s
more behind that curtain of steam and
volcanic smoke and then it opens and you
see it’s like a giant theater you see
this incredible lava lake illuminating
the steep walls of that caldera and we
built up our base camp on the summit
this is our cooking tent always with
this incredible view down there and it’s
always changing the surface of that lava
lake so it’s a real incredible spectacle
this is Ken Sims our Wilkin ologist and
he was a former mountain guide and he
was doing all the rope work to get down
there we looked at the first terrace
which is only a small relict
the second one is much bigger and the
third one is was the lava lake situated
in the midst and this is where we aim to
we wanted to stay there one week the
scientists had a lot of experiments
lined up and here we construct a
Tyrolean to get all the scientific gear
down there so we made a campsite on the
second terrace which had its advantages
because it has a ground heating it was
quite warm and very very pleasant
compared to the summit and of course we
were closer to the lava lake so it was
absolutely mesmerizing so I knew that
would be my home for the next week and I
was really happy to finally be so close
to the volcanism and we observed this
kind of miniature plate tectonics in the
lake so it was really amazing just to
observe what’s going on the hottest lava
in the world
2,400 degrees Fahrenheit that’s probably
the reason why this lava lake is so big
and here the scientists are measuring
the radon which comes from really big
depths from the magma chamber and has a
decay rate of three point eight days so
they can make very valuable analyzes
about the love of this volcano but
suddenly the scientists realized wow
there could be overflows of that lava
lake and it could flood the third
Terrace and it could flood quite hefty
and and you don’t know exactly how
stable these cinder cones of that lava
lake are and that kind of relative ated
their will to go down to the third
Terrace so for me there were no doubts I
want to go down there and that was my
goal but the discussions came up and the
scientists decided to go already after
one day and I couldn’t believe that so I
have a little sequence with a scientist
well I don’t would like to go down mr.
garrison I just wonder what um probably
won’t be going down to the third Terrace
I’m saying you need a lot of ingredients
for a good volcano picture any good
activity you need a good visibility you
have to have patience and you have to
have to out sit the right situations
well I had a big problem and you see I
mean it was really not a nice weather
situation I admit the weather was really
poor the first day it was acid rain and
you almost couldn’t breathe because
that’s so called vaak volcanic smoke
usually you take gas masks but if you
hard work like here and if you have to
carry up equipment you can’t breathe
through the gas masks all the time
because of the resistance but everyone
left after that one day and
even my friend and assistant he became
ill and had to go up so I had no other
choice than to stay down there well and
and and I had nothing better to do than
to photograph myself but then I looked
up and looked this beautiful kind of
Lake lit clouds and in the moonlight and
I thought well that’s wonderful to have
the whole crater for myself but these
were my only bodies down there – white
necked Ravens and they immediately stole
my food when they realized my tent was
open but I was glad for them because
otherwise it’s kind of a Death Zone
insects fly in the night to the lava
lake attracted by the light and then
they burn somehow their wings and they
fall down and everything is covered by
death animals so next day I climbed up
to the first terrorist to discuss with
Ken willing to take the risk himself ken
asks Carsten to collect the zero-age
sample from the third Terrace they will
need to set two lines one to get in
the other one to get out the lava
overflows up on the summit ken will spot
the levels of the lava for the climbers
on the final Terrace who can’t see the
surface of the lake themselves because
they are below it please look at him
yeah the activity is over on your side
of the wall there
he’s going back down we’ll come on good
job yeah we have been I have been very
very lucky as you saw in the film we
climbed down to the third Terrace that’s
the view if you are down that the so
terrorists actually you can’t see into
the lava lake up there so it’s kind of
mandatory that you have to climb that
cinder cone so and then you have these
surprises because there’s something like
an infrasound it Shooks your whole body
on but you can’t listen to it it’s very
very strange I have never experienced
that before I imagine the whole crater
is like a loudspeaker and the membrane
is lava lake and if there are big bursts
of gas you get the kind of a resonance
and it shakes your body so very very
strange and you feel tiny tiny tiny I
mean you see here my friend on the
cinder cone and the lava lake is huge
compared to that and the energy going
away from the lava lake is unbelievable
and hard to imagine so it’s a huge
energy source and there are disgust
bubbles coming out of that leg and
ripping apart this liquid stone bubbles
maybe 80 feet high and one day later ken
came really down and brought us a
thermal suit I was testing it first I
have to say these thermal suits are
quite uncomfortable because they are
insulating it’s very warm even if it’s
not warm outside so so and you have a
very restricted view so very limited so
if there’s lava flow or if bombs are
flying it’s quite dangerous but you
won’t believe next day also Ken came
down to the third Terrace and actually
it is him here on the top of the cinder
cone and he probably won’t forget that
for his life
I would have loved to stay much longer
time unfortunately we were restricted
and we had to go up again and made it up
to the second terrace to all these kind
of very difficult parts with second
terrorists taking apart and there’s a
lot of rockfall and this is my last
pictures of this nasty volcanic smoke
walk as beautiful as it can be and yeah
I hope to see you maybe again in future
thank you very much
you
you
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