Crazy Man Runs over Lava Flow - Neatorama

Volcano photographer Marc Szeglat assures us that this man running up a visibly flowing stream of lava at Mount Etna "was very experienced and knew what he was doing." How do you get experienced at this skill? What kind of learning curve is involved?

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"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning."

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Well, I don't think you have to sink into lava to be in trouble with lava. If the lava flow is fast enough, you can get trapped in the flow while still floating in it (like a floating twig caught in a fast rapid, for example)

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It's pretty impossible for a humanbeing to sink in lava. It's molten rock and while standing in one place most likely will submerge your feet, it's still very dense so one would have to stay in one place for several seconds.

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Did his shoe briefly catch fire on that last step? Because man, that's damn close to this being an entirely different kind of video.

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Ooooh nifty! I saw a documentary about the Winter Solstice and Newgrange came up and it has intrigued me for a while. Can't wait for the live feed!

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So all these ancient sites throughout the world correspond to the solstices ... I often wonder if there is more to them or were they just one big calendar clock for the locals.

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...It's the shortest "day" of the year only in the Northern Hemisphere. Let's not be 'hemisphereists' about it all.

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Whats that figure in the picture? It's giving me the heebie jeebies.

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"The long time exposure also captures the ghostly figure of a more modern astronomer in motion."

Please learn to be read article.

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