©2008 Bruce Muirhead
Pacaya Volcano at night
Guatemala


Description:After hiring a local 10-year-old boy as a guide, I climbed the 8,432’ active volcano Pacaya in central Guatemala. I wanted to photograph the eruptions at night. Reaching the crater rim, I peered down into the deep crater and watched a 300-foot tall lava fountain erupting from the floor of the crater. This one-minute exposure captured the continuously spewing lava in the center of the volcano's summit crater. Returning down the mountain in the dark, I was grateful the boy knew the best way down through the maze of stunted forests that covered the lower slopes.


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