Detail of a photo: Glowing orange lava flow running down a dark slope at twilight, with smoke and pink-lit clouds rising past a dark cone-shaped hill behind it.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place

New Zealand

Lakes and lahars at Mt Ruapehu

October 23, 2014

Mt Ruapehu is the largest mountain on the North Island of New Zealand. As well as being a popular ski resort, Ruapehu is an active andesitic stratovolcano. Formed approximately 200,000 years ago, activity is currently confined to the Crater Lake vent; this deep depression fills with water from snow melt between eruptive episodes. Similarly to …[Read More]