EXPLORED CRATER
‘MUST LIKE GOING DOWN TO
BELL.”
MAN CLAD IN ASBESTOS SUIT
ROME, Jan. 5
“It was just like going down to hell”, said Arfad Killer, who, clad in an asbestos suit and a stout helmet, equipped with an oxygen breath ing apparatus, explored the crater of Mount Stromboli, one °f Europe’s few remaining volcanoes, for three hours.
As Kiner descended, sulphurous fumes emerged in a blinding mist from crevices in the black, red and yellow walls of tlib binter. Pits 20 foot to 30ft. deep, resembling boiling cauldrons of porridge, iverc discovered- when Kinor reached solid ground. Bursting lava distributed showers of stones and incandescent matter hundreds of feet high over the top of ‘tKe crater.
. Every fow minutes geysers of lava showered stoilbs as largo as footballs in ever direction. The convulsions of the lava were like .the surf on an ocean beach. Tviben. Kitier was drawn lip, his oxygen supply was almost exhausted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11830, 11 January 1933, Page 4
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