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Lorana in Jacobsen Fjord
a distant plume of smoke being circled by helicopters and light aircraft. When a text from the Icelandic Police politely informed us not to fly a drone more than 200m above the ground, I began to get negative
thoughts about the whole experience, but I was in for a surprise. The walk was quite lengthy, the crowds gradually thinned out and after about an hour and a half we joined a reverential group sat on a lip
above a steep slope dropping down to the volcano in the valley below. The volcano itself was shooting fountains of lava into the air, which dropped with big splashes into a lava lagoon below. The ground was
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Mountaineer Simon Yates is a veteran of over seventy expeditions to high and remote mountains around the world. His current passion is climbing and exploring in the far north (Greenland) and far south (Tierra del Fuego). Anyone wishing to know more should visit https://mountain- dream206739369.wordpress.com
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