Erta Ale Caldera
<Series 10 : Erta Ale Caldera>
Erta Ale, base camp before dawn. Several LED headlights were swaying around a cot set on a lava plateau. We carried a one night's baggage on our backs and started climbing to the camp on the rim of Erta Ale Caldera.
The LED lights illuminate only the feet, and when I kicked the ground with my shoe soles, a dry echo came back. We walked on the slope leading to the summit for about 40 minutes, and then the eastern sky was colored ultramarine and the blue hour began.
Location: Erta Ale, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erta_Ale
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D markⅢ; Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8l Ⅱ USM; Capture One 20; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erta_Ale
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D markⅢ; Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8l Ⅱ USM; Capture One 20; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
The ground was filled with basalt. The basalt at this location is a vitreous rock and is a porous basalt containing small cavities of several millimeters. Some parts of the ground were weathered and cracked, and some were punctured on the ground. These cavities under the ground were the true nature of the echoes heard from the shoes' soles.
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The camp was located hundreds of meters from the active South Pit, in a perfect location to walk to the caldera's bottom, with about 10 shelters.
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Title: To Afar Triangle in Ethiopia: one of the harshest places on Earth
A new adventure has begun; to meet the harshest nature on earth; to meet the lives of Ethiopian peoples living in the harshest places.
In 1974, several hundred pieces of fossilized human bones more than 3 million years old were found near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, and it was found to be a female skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, and she was named "Lucy".
The broad-leaved forests that provided fruits: Lucy's main foods, had decreased drastically with the advent of the Sahara Desert and the Great Rift Valley, which began forming about 10 million years ago; it was necessary to descend to the ground and move between the trees to obtain the fruits.
The Afar Triangle, or Afar Depression(as known as the Danakil Desert), located in northeastern Ethiopia, was said to be one of the harshest places on earth and was formed by the Great Rift Valley. In the Danakil Desert, the lowest elevation is below -100m above sea level and the dry season temperature is close to 50°C; surprisingly, this is the place where the Afar peoples live, besides, this place is a region with extremely active uplift: the volcano Dallol, which has the crater in the lowest place in the world on land: the volcano Elta Are, which has a low-viscosity lava lake.
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