Trekking in Ethiopia The Dallol : a thin layer of magma surrounded by a vast salt lake. Acids, gas, geysers and ocides at 40°C
Photo (c) Jean Marc Porte

Trekking

... Everyone knows children should go to bed early. At every rest stop, Adrien settles into a fold in the lava, falls asleep. Every time we start again, he turns on the headlamp his mom gave him and pushes to the front of the team. The fatigue, the dust, the immense heat, the harsh conditions are behind him. He has an appointment with the heart of the earth, with the magma eye of a crater...

Jean-Marc Porte
Trekking at the Erta Alé Volcano, Ethiopia, East Africa, 2008

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