Word: volcano
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...England. Winston Churchill, a superhawk hero of the 20th century, ran the occupation, saw the futility of it and favored retreat. "We are paying 8 millions a year," he wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in 1922, "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano...
...When I look at my pictures?and I actually look pretty there?and see people stomping on them, I feel like ... a volcano about to explode." Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian President, reacting to demonstrators in Jakarta...
...week trek, our party of 11?Xall cousins from the U.S., ranging in age from 15 to 64?Xwould see more bears, as well as reindeer, foxes, ermines and half-meter-long trout. We would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places...
...first outing, to the 2,323-m Mutnovsky volcano, was a day's bumpy ride from Petropavlovsk in a six-wheel-drive bus. Rockslides blocked the road at one point, so we piled out, doing calisthenics to keep warm, while the vehicle roared and slid around the frozen lava. That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries. While we hauled water from a freezing stream, Elena, our cook, served up meat stew, brown bread, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, cheese and chocolates?Xone of many feasts...
...After a night's rest in Petropavlovsk, we set off by helicopter, briefly stopping by the Karymsky volcano, which, since its 1996 eruption, has been spewing ash into the air every 10 minutes or so with sinister rumbles. No wonder the native Itelmen people once thought the volcanoes were inhabited by gomuls?Xghosts that roasted whales over huge bonfires, sending forth clouds of smoke and rivers of boiling fat. After camping by the Sestryonka River, we hiked through birch forests and fields of wild purple irises to the Valley of Geysers...