Mount Etna from above: helicopter experience
The excitement of climbing an active volcano is connected to what you shall see as you trek, step by step, along its mountain paths. Mount Etna already offers this experience thanks to the many…
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Once upon a time, the Gino Menza Refuge
Once upon a time there was Gino Menza Refuge ... a small alpine hut in the "belly" of an active volcano. A fairy tale that ended under meters and meters of lava, which brought…
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Valle del Bove, a natural basin against eruptions
The place we now call the Valle del Bove (the valley of the ox) is actually the still visible testimony of a huge geological tragedy that occurred about 10,000 years ago. At that time…
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Mt Etna’s new side eruption. Shall we be worried?
Etna is not new to this kind of "surprises". The volcanologists themselves say that "you never know what's going on in the pot" and never like today, on Christmas Eve 2018, the volcano has…
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Mt Etna, side eruption concerning Valle del Bove
The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Catania informs us that the current one, started at 11 am on 24 December 2018, is a real side eruption, with "the opening of several eruptive…
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