Mt Etna climb & eruptions

Climbed up Mt Etna with a group and a guide. I was expecting hundreds of people on top but everybody spread out and I was able to have some space to get the feeling of really being there.

Just as we got to the top one of the craters erupted to everybody's surprise. The Etna sits on the European tectonic plate just in the area where the African plate slides underneath, this is responsible for the continuous volcanic activity. The section we were walking on had erupted in December of 2023. It was a fairly cool flow and was accessible not too long afterwards. Currently the risk for a large explosion is smaller than usual as the dome is shrinking. In 2002 and 2003 was the last larger eruption.Lue lisää