************************************************************************** From: Alexander Morawitz <alexander.morawitz@xxxxxxx> ************************************************************************** THE ROARING OF THE VOLCANO, THE TREMBLING OF THE EARTH AND A TURQUOIS LAKE OF ACID IN THE WIDTH OF THE WILDERNESS - all this you can experience at EXPEDITION KARYMSKY 2008 (Kamchatka Peninsula/Far East of Russia): I'd like to draw your attention to an extraordinary expedition to one of Kamchatkas most active volcanoes - Karymsky - which has small and powerful eruptions of ash and gas nearly all the time. In September 2008 there will be an expedition with russian volcanologist Viktor Okrugin to Karymsky, to watch the volcano at work. He is familiar with the powerful and mostly explosive volcanoes of Kamchatka. During nearly 3 weeks, we will also visit the nearby Caldera Akademia Nauk with the Karymsky Lake (of 4 km diameter), which last erupts in 1996, and the active Maly Semyachik Volcano, which we will reach after 2 days of hiking with tents and food on our backs. The 250 m deep crater hosts a 500 m wide acid lake (pH 0-1) of green or turquoise colour and 40° C temperature. Inside this ambient lives a colony of thermophile bacterias of the type thiobacillus thiooxidans. The textures of the crater walls are extraordinary of colour and shape! We'll have a full day to explore this mystical scenery. It is possible, that the night temperatures fall below zero. Otherwise we will have the wonderful colours of the autumn tundra around us. The weather in September is mostly fine, nevertheless it is possible that we also have a cyclone during that time. But there is a hut and a cook for us! We will stay at the old volcanologist station at Karymsky (we come and go by helicopter, allowing us some equipment, which is maybe interesting for scientists) - but we are far from civilization anyway - there will be no comfort at all but a nearby hot spring! I'm experienced with expeditions of that kind and we will have an impressive time out in the wilderness with peaceful brown bears around. The bear problems of North America and Canada are not common in Kamchatka - please look at: http://www.cloudline.org to learn more about these bears from an expert, who has worked many years in South- Kamchatka. For detailed information and photos please look at: http:// www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-tours/kamchatka/volcano- expedition.html?&L=1 or feel free to contact me for special questions: alexander.morawitz@xxxxxxx (Please note that this is not a usual Kamchatka tourist tour but especially made for scientists, students and all people who are interested in active volcanism and wild nature.) Looking forward to seeing you in Kamchatka! Alexander Morawitz, Radebeul (near Dresden)/Germany ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
