Playing With Fire: Photographer Gets Dangerously Close To Lava Lake
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THESE fiery images offer a glimpse inside the '
Gateway To
Hell' - the world’s oldest continuously active lava lake.
Travel photographer
Joel Santos, 38, piloted a drone low over the bubbling lake, which reaches temperatures exceeding 1,
100 degrees celsius. The lake, which has had a continuous flow since
1906, is situated inside the Erta Ale volcano, otherwise known as
Smoking Mountain, in the
Afar region of northeastern
Ethiopia. The volcano’s last major eruption occurred in
2005, killing 250 livestock and forcing thousands of nearby residents to flee. And the
Portuguese photographer remained acute aware of the hazards posed by filming such a potentially devastating natural phenomenon at such close quarters.
Videographer / director
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