Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World
In June 2010, a team of scientists and intrepid explorers stepped onto the
shore of the lava lake boiling in the depths of Nyiragongo Crater, in the
heart of the Great Lakes region of Africa. The team had dreamed of this:
walking on the shores of the world's largest lava lake. Members of the team
had been dazzled since childhood by the images of the 1960 documentary "The
Devil's Blast" by Haroun Tazieff, who was the first to reveal to the public
the glowing red breakers crashing at the bottom of Nyiragongo crater.
Photographer Olivier Grunewald was within a meter of the lake itself, giving
us a unique glimpse of it's molten matter. (The Big Picture featured Olivier
Grunewald's arresting images of sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen volcano in East
Java, Indonesia, in a December 2010 post.) -- Paula Nelson (28 photos total)
The view from the volcano's rim, 11,380 feet above the ground. At 1,300 feet
deep, the lava lake has created one of the wonders of the African continent.
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