Into the volcano

In a helicopter with no doors, you hover over a lava lake the size of two football fileds…then land! You run through clouds of scalding steam, dodging lava bombs, to photograph glowing hot lava as it pours into the sea. You set up camp on the edge of a volcano’s cone, only to be hit with hurricane-force winds, poisonous gases and acidic ash.

This is part of Donna O’Meara’s life: a volcano researcher, writer and photographer who, in this beautiful book published by Kids Can Press, get readers up close with some of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes.