Long-Feared Volcanoes Help the Planet ?長久以來讓人恐懼的火山對地球有益

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Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano in the world. More people have been to space than have traveled to Antarctica and set foot on Mount Erebus.

That is for good reason. When humans first climbed it in the early 1900s， the journey involved violent winds， occasional frostbite and bowls of “hoosh” （a potent， greasy combination of boiled， dehydrated beef and fat， which would not go bad）.

Clive Oppenheimer， a professor of volcanology at Cambridge University， has spent 13 seasons—cumulatively an entire year of his life—living near the summit of Mount Erebus.

In Mountains of Fire he regales readers with gripping stories of his travels， as well as those of adventurers past. He does not just describe what the volcanoes look like， but how they feel and what they mean to the people who encounter them.

埃里伯斯火山是世界上最南端的活火山。（剩余3609字）