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We are all for treading upon unfamiliar ground, but sometimes it's best to let someone else do the traveling-like when the destination is an active volcano.
Sam Cossman uploaded the following video to YouTube with the apt title, "Man Dives into an Exploding Volcano."
Now while there isn't any actual diving or poolside cannonballing, there might as well be, because the crew gets ridiculously close to this volcano:
Cossman delivers the details in the video's description:
"Sam Cossman and George Kourounis guided by volcanic pioneers Geoff Mackely and Brad Ambrose become among the first explorers to step foot inside the worlds most dangerous and inaccessible volcano, Marum Crater. More people have visited the moon than the fiery bottom of this spectacular and deadly place."
The Blaze's Liz Klimas explains where this volcano is situated; "A helicopter brought them to the site of the volcano, which is located in Ambrym Island in the Pacific Ocean of Australia's coast.
From there, the crew rappels down a steep incline, inducing vertigo with one of the more harrowing images from the video at about 55 seconds in.
Not that the entire video isn't completely filled with jaw-dropping images, because the end of the descent brings the adventurers to chaotic and bubbling magma.
Kourounis (h/t Klimas) explains that condition were really quite outrageous 1,200 feet below: "We faced splashes of lava, toxic sulfur dioxide gas, shockingly strong acid rain... The challenges went on and on, but in the end, we were able to get to the bottom twice."
Active volcanoes seem to be working overtime at the moment, simply for all the press they are getting. CNN, for example, recently reported an Icelandair pilot took the scenic route around Bardabunga to give passengers a view.
Little did we know that around the world, another group of travelers were getting far closer to an actual volcano.
The human spirit is amazing and, in this case, downright mad.
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