Share author traveled Vulkan in
Iceland Glacier yagn
hooks to Black, heated
controversy, and learning coexist
with Lava.
Text by Jonathan B Tourtellot (is National Geographic Fellow), executive summary by darmansjah
"I was able to fly you to
vulkan!" Cried the enthusiastic pilot. "This is a rare opportunity!
We'll fly low zig-zag between the ice cliff. "He moves his hands like a
wriggling snake, adding:" Flying lower the better. Flying high could hit
the cliff. "Then he told me about the wonders of lava, the greatness of
nature, carelessness government-things I do not know. Vulkan or mountain
berapai it, Eyjafjallajokull,
erupted two years ago. Blankets ashes crippling road and air traffic in Europe
for days-the worst disaster after World War II (called, "that vol-CANE-oh in ICE-land").
The pilot was the Icelandic
versatile, Omar Ragnarsson, 70, radio entertainers, filmmakers, newscasters,
journalists, comedians, politicians, and environmental activists. In the
summer, he wrote a blog about the dangers that threaten the countryside in
Iceland. He wrote what he saw from the cockpit of his Cessna 172 for the
35-year-old opener people about Eyjafjallajokull
(read: Ehya-fyettala-yuh-kuttle).
I'm doubtful. It seems not a good
idea surrender my life to the aging pilot who likes to fly this plane passed.
Especially my wife, Sally, had intended traveled vulcan in Iceland (this trip
with his wife for the third time, and I personally the sixth time). We never
get tired of enjoying the diversity as well as natural and cultural uniqueness
of the country inhabited around 309 000 inhabitants. While Virginia hit by a
humid summer, we have reason to fly to Iceland to experience the cold dry,
volcanic eruptions as well.
Iceland topped the Mid-Atlantic ridge, belt
mountains and valleys where the eruptive fissure
periodic basis to
expand the Atlantic Ocean. We
want to experience living in settlements frenzy, down
the active volcano area of the south coast
after the Westman Islands, wading interior
Arctic, to the city of Husavik on the northeast coast. Just what we worry
about: Will the recent eruption attract crowds
of tourists?
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