• Question: Have you ever climbed up a volcano?

    Asked by khughes08 to Katy on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katy Mee

      Katy Mee answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Yep, i’ve climbed up a couple of volcanoes. A few were in Iceland, they were called Oraefajokull and Raudufossafjoll (they’re a bit of a mouthful!). And the volcano that i studied for my PhD is called Nevados de Chillan volcano, which is located in central Chile in South America. It is 3212m high (about 2 1/2 times the height of Ben Nevis). I camped on the volcano about 1000m below the summit and spent 2 months walking around the volcano, studying the rocks and collecting samples, so I covered quite a lot of ground!!

      I’m going to Sicily in October and there are lots of small volcanoes there which I’m planning to walk up too.

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