The only volcano in the world if you fall into you still survives

If there is a competition to see which volcanoes are "more", the top position must belong to this volcano in Tanzania.

Ol Doinyo Lengai - meaning "The Mountain of God" in the local language - is famous for being one of the world's most cool volcanic lava volcanoes. Not only that, it once noted the story of an unfortunate person who fell but survived.

The lava here is so "cold" that it is almost always black, never exceeding 510 ° C - only half the 1,000 ° C minimum temperature of basalt - one of the most popular lava types on Earth. .

The radiant heat of the lava is not even enough to heat it.

The viscosity of lava at this mountain is also super strange. Due to the lack of silicon molecular framing chains such as conventional volcanoes, the lava here flows like water , forming streaks like a river and falling down a slope easily.

Most lava normally has a flow rate on flat terrain not exceeding 10km per hour, so it is not difficult to avoid its flow.

However, lava from Mount Ol Doinyo Lengai can pass the speed of human being as easily as the hand, but fortunately, it rarely erupts too violently.

Close up of black lava erupting at Ol Doinyo Lengai.

So what makes this volcano so different? Unlike normal lava based on silicon and oxygen, this lava contains a lot of alkaline elements like calcium and sodium.

The melting point of these molecular chains is very low, creating this strange "cool" lava. In fact, in addition to Ol Doinyo Lengai, there are a few other volcanoes that possess such lava characteristics, and mostly concentrated in East Africa.

Ol Doinyo Lengai Mountain is rarely erupted.

Another special feature of Ol Doinyo Lengai is that it erupts to be expected by people. The reason because many studies have shown that lava here contains many rare earth elements - the important component of modern electronic devices.

In addition, with a life span of more than 370,000 years, this is also considered a useful mountain for archaeological works.

The latest eruption of Ol Doinyo Lengai in 2008.

Back in 2007, a local porter in an expedition had unfortunately fallen into the still active lava area crater.

Although with one arm and both legs burned badly and had to be hospitalized soon after, this man finally managed to climb out of "hell".

Falling into the lava is not a good memory, but this character is the only person in the world who can proudly say, I fell to the crater and survived !