
truck surfing on the road from Rwanda |

women at work |

local clothing |

local marketplace |

Goma - truck buried by 2002 lava flow |

Goma with Nyiragongo behind |

lava buried truck used as family residence |

car buried by 2002 lava flow |

self made scooter for carrying the harvest into the city |

Nyiragongo ascend alongside solidified lava flows |

lava shreds still hanging in the trees
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small lava tube with melt structures
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huge summit crater with earths biggest permanent lava lake 600m below |

our campsite near the rim |

rare clear view of the lava lake |

lava lake with usual steam around |

morning dawn with lights of Goma |

morning view to Virunga mountains |

Mikeno with summit cloud |

lava lake at dawn |

lava lake at night |

Nyiragongo crater at night |

steep crater walls with lake below |

west side view down to the lake |

isolated fountaining |

bursting bubble |

bubbling and fountaining |
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lava lake storm |
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lake storm produces 25m high bursting bubbles |

west side view at night-
small scale plate tectonics |
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descent through dense forest after three nights on top
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big lava shred hanging in a tree branch
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flowers near the trail
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local ranger with his weapon |

local women
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local child |

boy with self made scooter |
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hard work without any machines |

young mountain gorilla |

silverback mountain gorilla |

female mountain gorilla |