Earth By Night: The World’s Best Moonlit Activities

Marc Llewellyn of Australia’s The Age explores a variety of activities to explore by moonlight, including Climbing Volcanoes:

You need to be fit or tenacious to climb some of the world’s most spectacular volcanoes, and arrive at the top just after dark or just before dawn.

Among the world’s most dramatic and accessible volcanoes is Stromboli, on the island of the same name, off the north coast of Sicily. You can join a group and reach the summit after four hours of climbing. Then you sit on a lip of dirt and clinker and hang your legs over the crater’s edge.

Every few minutes fiery cannonades of lava boom into the night sky and moments later a soft rain of ash drifts down to skitter on your helmet.

Very cool!