Bradley White (NewZcam)

Up close with boiling lava

More Marum lava footage from my archive. Most of this footage has never been seen before. I've had it stored and have only just had the time to start going through my collection. This particular expedition was the most violent I had ever seen the lava lake. Some of the bursts were over my height when filming from the lake's top edge. It was also this time that I had a spatter of lava shoot over me (that's another video!). This series of clips are from as close as any person has ever been to the lava lake. At 1200 degrees Celsius the lava puts out a tremendous amount of heat that begins to burn bare skin and starts to cook the camera and lenses. The Marum lava lake is within the Marum vent of the Ambrym volcano on Ambrym in Vanuatu. The abseil is between 300-400m down vertical cliffs and across a number of crater shelves. This lake drained after a volcanic event on the island. Footage copyright Bradley White. Thanks to @geoffmackley and @samcossman8569