Posted on 12/16/2018 9:55:06 PM PST by Paul R.
:”D “And mommy drinks because you cry.”
It would be a great place to drop him off. From an airplane maybe..
Interesting, have you been to Antarctica, just curious.
What if Vicente Fox was taken back down there and thrown in?
Just askin’....
Oh, I know, thankfully this is not at present a “big one”, but if I was within a few miles of it, I suspect I’d be duly impressed. :-)
That sounds like quite an experience!
No, not Antarctica. North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australis]a. The highest peak I have summitted was Cerro Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Andes by the difficult Polish Glacier Route that took 21 days beginning to end. The highest mountain I have attempted was Cho Oyu in the Himalayas, the 6th highest peak in the world and just west of Everest. I helped get gear to about 18,500 ft and caught a cold that was going around that turned to pneumonia at that altitude. I had to go lower to recover. We got our first 5 to the summit. The next day I was to be the second team to try and they got shut down by very high wind. Even if I did not get sick I would not have had a chance.
I remember that same book when I was little. I’ve thought about that story since the Hawaiian volcano became active.
Makes you wonder where and when the next one will pop.
Must be man made global warming. </s>
That was an interesting experience. Popo was just spewing steam at low levels without variation so I did not think anything about it.
More interesting was climbing Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador and it was not spewing steam, but when we reached the summit on the highest spot on the crater rim it blew out a huge steam eruption. The wind was blowing the other direction, but we could feel the heat.
Hahaha -now we know the real reason Miss Philippines won the Miss Universe title (in Bangkok) a few hours ago. (Who says the old superstitions are dead?)
Seriously though - which Filipino volcano erupted this weekend? A web search did not turn up much info. for me.
That IS wild. As if the better known dangers are not enough!
I know I'd never heard it before, and having seen photos and vids of the serious lightning that blasts through the pillar of smoke and fire, I wonder now how common that is. Lucky for Ben Franklin that he didn't try his gag by a volcano.
This is the one, amazing that the search turned it right up.
https://www.amazon.com/Juan-of-Paricutin/dp/B001N2EIUM
Wow. So, only one more continent to go? :^) If you caught cold on Cho Oyu, I'd imagine there'd be some risk on an Antarctic volcano.
Great stuff.
Thanks
Pub date is 1953. I read it in the early 1960’s.
I did not catch a cold on Cho Oyu because of the cold, I caught it because others had a cold and the group could not get controls in place to prevent others from getting infected.
I have two continents to go, Africa and Antarctica.
Quick! Call the EPA! Paging Al Gore. Carbon footprint. Carbon tax! CO2 is gonna kill is all by Christmas!
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