[StrategicNuclearMoose]

Playing with lava and cooking eggs

[z3r01]

crazy

[Mr.NoCredit]

Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft (née Conrad; 17 April 1942 – 3 June 1991) and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft (25 March 1946 – 3 June 1991) were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers in the filming, photographing, and recording of volcanoes, often coming within feet of lava flows. Their obituary appeared in the Bulletin of Volcanology. Since their deaths, their work has been featured in two documentary films by Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film, Fire of Love (2022), depicted their lives, relationship and careers using their archived footage.

[Stanh80]

At least they died doing what they loved most : having their faces melted off while inhaling 500°C vaporized sulfuric acid

[kellyhound]

Cool reminded me off this https://www.documentingreality.com/f...olcano-147271/

[William May]

I can't tell you how often I too have done this!!


Seriously, I saw their documentary at the Loft, "The Fire Within". It was quite touching, but if you are going to do stuff like that, there probably will be a requiem film in your future.


It was kind of "scientific grade Darwin Awards"

[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Some folks just never want to grow up...