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Etna
passionately, day after day

(illustrated narratives)


"Cinders & Parmeggiano".
(septembre '97)
      We went for the first time on the Etna with four, four passionnate guys for volcanoes and spectaculary visions.
A meeting between members and readers of the same monthly newspaper
(LAVE) decided us, and we departed a few days later, end of september. The result of this journey is related here in English.
"Merry Easter!"
(Easter '98)
     But all this was without my Marie-Paule. With the aid of my enthousiasm and the nice pictures, she was decided to come along. And this time, not for the dolce vita on the small island (you know, Vulcano, Stromboli), but for the real mountain.
So here we go, just two of us, heading for the big, the real volcano. The relation of our "heroic" journey and our Easter hollyday week is written by MP. Only in French actually, but the pictures are in English ;-)
"Friends first"
(octobre '98)
    All that is nice and well, text, pictures and so, but many of our friends were keeping asking "What about us?". Under the people's pressure, and as you guessed, we didn't needed tha much, we went back once more to our favorite volcano, after having gathered all what we could as information about recent activity. Patience, narrative is coming...


Of course, we have our little favorites for info about Etna or other volcanoes. Here are some links to follow:

Boris Behncke Boris Behncke: German geologist working in the Catania university, his site is really complete, and the Etna news are always hot. Lots of links to other pages
Alain Melchior Alain Melchior: Geologist, enthousiastic about volcanoes, he searched for gold in the Pampa and was one of the four in our first visit to Etna. Nice site with efforts put on visual and fun. Nice 3D views..
Volcano World Volcano World: A classical, and they have an 'Eruption Update address list' which will warn you by e-mail when they have news.
      *  -QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LIST itself should be directed to  *
      *    owner-eruption-update@aero.und.edu.                                *
Etna live cam

Etna Live Cam: don't miss it! A View of Etna's summit, updated every 30 sec. With a sismologic chart in real time. The Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia  operates this camera which possesses an infrared filter for night pictures.

 

Jean-Louis Piette

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