unlike anything else

 

"This was impressive enough, but the accompanying noise

was unlike anything else I have ever heard. It was a siren,

a blizzard and a wailing child all at once - an animal really -

and it was followed by a sonorous chugging, like a steam

train gathering speed.”  

 

—Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of fire

 

sketches & beautiful writing

 

 

"This revealed a remarkably regular oscillation every

six to nine hours: the volcano had a pulse." 

—

"To have reached the summit of a far-flung erupting

volcano, to see my footprints in pristine cinereous powder

that a day before had been viscous magma in the Earth’s

interior,[...] brought a self-awareness that was new to me.

A nomadism and curiosity that still influence my career

were ignited beside this expressive, mysterious crater.

Volcanoes were now engrained in my story." [Ili Boleng]

Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of fire