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In a cold world,
all the watches started to freeze.
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The sun came and went between blizzards and gusts which erased all bearings.
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In this world lived a fire
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and in this fire,
two lovers found a home.
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All right.
The volcano is ready, waiting for us.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Katia?
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This is Katia,
and this is Maurice.
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It's 1991, June 2nd.
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Tomorrow will be their last day.
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They will leave behind samples.
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Words.
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Hundreds of hours of footage.
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Thousands of photos.
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And a million questions.
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The Muana Loa.
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They meet 19 years ago.
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In 1966.
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There is no definitive account of this first encounter
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and the visual record of their budding romance is sparse.
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There is this photo...
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and these rose-tinted moments a few years later.
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Parts of Katia and Maurice's story remain lost to time.
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As in love, there are mysteries.
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You fall hard for what you know.
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Harder for what you don't.
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In one story, Katia and Maurice meet by chance on a bench
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at the University of Strasbourg.
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In a second,
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they meet at a new film by renowned volcanologist Haroun Tazieff.
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The most detailed account is a blind date at a café.
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They bond over their first loves,
Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli.
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Katia, a rebel who was sent to a school for unruly girls,
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convinces her parents to take her to Italy's volcanoes.
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Maurice would return to Stromboli
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at age 19,
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feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness.
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Katia understands this loneliness.
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It is also hers.
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Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace,
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the world felt to them unsafe, uncertain.
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They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world.
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Dreaming,
just 20 kilometers apart.
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The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly beneath them.
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At the end of this version,
the café closes and it begins to rain.
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They will never leave each other.
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November 19th, 1967,
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a U.S. fighter plane drops two snake-eye bombs
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along the South Vietnam border...
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the territory once colonized as French Indochina.
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One week later,
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Katia and Maurice join anti-war protests in Paris.
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The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Humanité.
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But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd
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next to the power of the Earth.
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It's also the plate tectonic revolution,
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and the field of volcanology is finding its form.
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They devour each hypothesis, each myth.
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Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of the Earth.
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The truths...
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the fragments...
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the questions.
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They wonder what forms and re-forms the world.
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To these mysteries they long to get closer.
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With just enough grant money and a donated car,
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Katia and Maurice go seek Iceland's volcanoes
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with their friend, Roland.
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Katia is the geochemist,
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Maurice the geologist.
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Alone, they could only dream of volcanoes.
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Together, they can reach them.
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Except the car breaks down 27 times.
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Then crashes.
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And Maurice gets into hot water.
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Here is an actor reading Katia's account.
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Undeterred,
they spend the next few summers
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studying their mutual friends,
Etna and Stromboli.
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They also bring along more human friends.
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L'Équipe Vulcain, they call themselves.
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Katia and Maurice are after
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the strange alchemy of elements,
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the combination of mineral, heat,
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gas and time that incites an eruption.
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What is it, they ask,
that makes the Earth's heart beat?
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Its blood flow?
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They study, examine and question.
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Katia and Maurice begin to learn the secrets of the planet
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that few others know.
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Understanding is love's other name.
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1970,
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Katia and Maurice marry in a small ceremony in Alsace.
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They honeymoon on the volcanic island of Santorini,
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believed to be the secret location of Atlantis.
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Katia and Maurice decide they will not have children.
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“From here on out,
life will only be volcanoes,
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"volcanoes, volcanoes,” Maurice says.
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The young field of volcanology
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has found two young stars.
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The camera loves them.
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And they love their own cameras back.
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Photography is a means of remembering, revisiting,
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stretching their time with volcanoes.
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This photo shows the parabolic trajectories
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of volcanic bombs ejected from Stromboli.
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This one shows how lava is stretched into glass wool
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called Pele's hair.
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And this shot helps visualize plate tectonic theory.
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Volcanology is a science of observation.
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The closer they get, the more they see.
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The very instant a volcano wakes up,
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these weirdoes are notified
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by a growing network of local friends and guides who help them
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reach the craters as fast as humanly possible.
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Maurice and Katia make their expedition to Nyiragongo,
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a volcano that sits between two diverging plates.
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They are guided by fellow volcanologist Jacques Durieux.
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You arrive at the mouth of the volcano,
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then you have to go
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in the mouth of the volcano.
So you are going down.
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Not so high, 300 meters.
But very bad rock.
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All kinds of fumaroles went through,
and so it's not strong.
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Here, Maurice and Katia make their home
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for the next two weeks.
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Katia would later write...
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Suddenly, the lava plunges down
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ten meters in seconds.
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Katia and Maurice will eventually emerge
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from this crater unscathed and emboldened.
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In the immense universe
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that is the classification of volcanoes,
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the Kraffts will eventually adopt two general classes.
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Red...
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and gray.
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Red volcanoes, like Nyiragongo,
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form as tectonic plates pull apart,
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and at hotspots on the ocean floor.
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Magma rises and fills in the gaps opened up by the movement of the Earth,
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creating new land.
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Red volcanoes are basaltic.
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Effusive.
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And up to 1200 degrees Celsius hot.
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Katia and Maurice have their differences.
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Katia is like a bird.
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Maurice, an elephant seal.
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Katia is drawn to details,
the interconnectedness of things.
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Maurice, the singular, the grandiose.
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They both observe the world,
but in their own distinct ways.
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Katia, with her still camera,
captures one moment with one frame.
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Maurice chases motion...
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recording a stream of seconds,
24 frames each.
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He thirsts to get every possible shot,
because the spectacle could vanish.
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But this causes him to wander...
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and wander...
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and wander.
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Katia's greatest fear is that she will lose sight of him...
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and never see him again.
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A surprise telegram summons Katia...
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and Maurice to Nyiragongo,
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their beloved volcano that they met four years ago.
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Katia and Maurice knew
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this kind of destruction was possible.
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But this is the first time they experience it firsthand.
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The lava flows were going very...
very fast.
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They were probably running at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
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And this was in the morning where a lot of people were on the road
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going for the market.
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We think that around 100 people were overwhelmed by the lava flow.
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Very unusual eruption.
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No amount of scientific research
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could have prepared them for this shock.
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The language of myth instead feels apt.
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They're in the cauldron of the devil,
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the portal to hell.
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Or caught amid the warring spirits of the volcano,
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according to the stories from their friends in Goma.
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For Katia and Maurice,
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the unknown is not something to be feared.
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It is something to go toward.
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At only 52 years old
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an infant Indonesian volcano begins to throw a fit.
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Katia and Maurice go chase it.
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In 1883, its parent,
a volcano named Krakatau, exploded.
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It conjured a tsunami so forceful that it swept
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neighboring coastlines,
killing 36,417 people.
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It also ripped up this coral from the seafloor
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and parked a colonial Dutch steamship two miles inland.
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Ash traveled the globe,
intensifying sunsets that transfixed
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the gaze of scientists and artists,
especially one Norwegian painter
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who described the sunsets as a scream.
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Then the volcano collapsed into the sea...
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only to spring up again as a newcomer called Anak Krakatau.
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Katia and Maurice must be totally in sync.
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Any mistake that one makes can be costly for the both of them.
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But Maurice cannot do this work without Katia.
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Neither can Katia, without Maurice.
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And together, they're there for the volcano,
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who is indifferent in the face of their adulation.
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Katia and Maurice know
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that these rocks will long outlive them.
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They are not religious.
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"We are scientists," they say.
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"We have but this one short life,
then we return to the ground."
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With her one short life,
Katia dreams of growing old
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with the volcano, of turning over its every stone.
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Maurice burns to get closer to the fire, no matter what.
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He once wrote,
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Maurice hatches this plan
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from another boating adventure
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during their first trip to Indonesia in 1971.
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Here, they study the largest reserve
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of sulfuric acid in the world.
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MAURICE: F
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Suddenly,
the acid eats through the steel cable
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and claims the sample bottle at the bottom of the lake.
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This mission is over.
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A headwind sweeps them further from shore.
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They will spend the next three hours struggling to get back.
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Katia is furious.
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Over time, Maurice perfects
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the legend of Maurice Krafft.
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And together,
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he and Katia have gotten good at playing themselves.
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Despite what Maurice says,
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their footage suggests otherwise.
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For instance, how do they show that their work is grueling?
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Perhaps like this?
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Or this?
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How do they show how to gaze into the abyss?
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Perhaps like this.
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How do they stage geologic scale?
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With images like this?
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But what about this?
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Why was this moment captured with their rationed feet of film?
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What or who was it for?
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Now and again, Katia and Maurice must go back to Alsace
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to turn their photos and footage into books and films.
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Here, they are denizens of this human world.
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In order to get back home to the volcano,
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they must pay the bills.
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Katia catalogues their images,
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writes the books
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and handles the logistics.
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Maurice takes the lecture tour,
media appearances,
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tries in vain to plan his lava canoe trip.
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He also edits their films.
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Ball is in.
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Danger.
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Danger.
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Over in the United States,
volcanologist Harry Glicken
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takes this photo of Mount St. Helens on May 17, 1980.
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What follows are some of the best-known images
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of what will happen here tomorrow,
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starting at eight hours, 32 minutes,
11.4 seconds Pacific Daylight Time.
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Fifty-three kilometers to the east on Mount Adams,
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a hiker takes these photos.
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Fifty-six kilometers to the northwest,
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this image is taken.
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Somewhere further, an eight-millimeter film camera records this.
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As for Maurice and Katia,
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they did not film or photograph this eruption...
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because they could not see or hear it.
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As ash descends on the surrounding area...
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Katia and Maurice make their approach.
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Katia and Maurice will spend three months amid the ash...
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monitoring, photographing,
studying this force.
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And little by little, they and their fellow researchers
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will paint a clearer picture of the event,
with numbers like
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two point eight,
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the number of cubic kilometers of land cast off by the mountain.
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Twenty-five thousand,
the eruption's force measured
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in atomic bombs like the one that the United States dropped
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on Hiroshima.
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Fifty-seven,
the official human death toll.
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At one point, they will find the melted tapes of David Johnston.
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No matter what they discover after the blast...
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they come no closer to understanding how
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to make the most critical measurements before it.
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From this moment on,
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they will devote their lives to this kind of volcano.
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The gray volcano.
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The killer volcano.
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Gray volcanoes may be killers,
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but their ash makes the most fertile soil in the world,
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as demonstrated by this killer turnip.
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Unlike red volcanoes,
which form when plates pull apart,
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grays form when plates collide,
causing pressure and heat
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to build and build until a cataclysmic release.
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A Who's-Who of such eruptions would include Vesuvius in the year 79,
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Tambora in 1815,
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and Pelée in 1902.
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Here is a relatively small one,
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Galunggung, in 1982.
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And here's Una-Una in 1983.
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There may be signs before an eruption,
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but there is no certainty.
No way of knowing the exact timing.
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And timing is everything in the human world.
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In 1884,
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time was set to machines instead of the wild rhythms of the Earth.
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No longer told by the Sun, Moon or stars,
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it relied on manufactured intervals to coordinate railway cars
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transporting minerals ripped from the Earth.
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Embraced by the British Empire,
this new railway time soon
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mapped the globe.
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But a volcano can't be scheduled.
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The length of the fuse is never known.
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This is a map drawn of Nevado del Ruiz,
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a gray volcano in Colombia's Andean range.
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It illustrates the threat if it erupts.
And there's every indication that it will,
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as Colombia's geoscientists communicated to officials in reports.
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This one, presented on October 7, 1985,
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states that there is a 100 percent probability of mudflows,
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with great danger for Armero and the surrounding towns.
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Katia and Maurice are part of a chorus
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who call for warning systems and evacuation plans.
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They know what will happen.
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But the decision-makers deem these plans too costly.
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On November 14, 1985,
these images circulate around the world.
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The volcano erupted the previous day,
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and the mudflows swallowed the villages late at night,
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while residents slept.
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Katia arrives while Maurice is on a lecture tour in France,
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promoting their latest film.
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The official death toll climbs to 22,000...
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and then 23,000.
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Some reports say 25,000.
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The exact number is not known.
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Survivors would later recount.
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Katia longs for Maurice,
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who is likely lecturing
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at this moment on the creative powers of volcanoes.
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For the first time, she questions her life's purpose.
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Katia and Maurice had spent their lives
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documenting how the Earth's heart beats,
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how its blood flows.
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Now they feel their own human hearts beating and breaking.
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Long ago, Maurice said...
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Volcanoes must destroy to create...
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but must this unruly cycle take human life?
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Katia and Maurice set out
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to hunt for the rarest,
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deadliest forces for a new film on volcanic hazards.
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It took them one full year to get these shots
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on Alaska's Mount Augustine.
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The camera shakes as if it's telegraphing,
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whether to stay or run.
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Perhaps it is because their colleague,
Juergen Kienle,
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is about to pull them away from the burning ash cloud
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at the last second.
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Several years from now,
their obituary will cite this
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as the moment where Katia and Maurice insisted that the risks
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should always be minimized...
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but that this type of close-up study had to be done.
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Maurice once said,
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“Look at how small we humans are against this volcanic force.
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"The only thing that will remain of our passage is that we can write,
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"tell stories, and film.”
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When you could die at any moment...
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what do you leave behind?
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A set of forces collide inside the planet
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throughout the enormity of geologic time
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to trigger one instant, an eruption,
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that forever re-shapes the Earth.
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And across humanity's two million years,
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two tiny humans are born in the same place,
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at the same time,
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and they love the same thing.
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And that love moved us closer to the Earth.
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June 3rd, 1991,
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Mount Unzen begins to wake up after its 200-year slumber.
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The mountain has been stirring since May,
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but today, something will shift inside the Earth.
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We hope always, but we cannot be sure,
and we don't know nothing.
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You have big blocks on the top and they have to...
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to come down, but when?
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Just after 4:00 p.m.,
it starts to rain.
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Ash blows in on a north wind.
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Something seems different this time.
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The mist obscures their view,
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so Katia and Maurice push closer
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with their friend, Harry Glicken,
to get a better shot.
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A journalist who abandoned their camera captured this shot.
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And there's this moment,
just before the blast.
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The last known shot of Katia and Maurice together.
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Japanese officials gave Katia and Maurice's friend, Yves, this photo.
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Their urns resting in the Shimabara Temple
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at the base of Mount Unzen.
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Near the site of the surge,
the marks on the earth indicated
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that Katia and Maurice were next to each other.
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Two items were recovered.
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A camera and a watch,
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its hands forever frozen in time
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at 4:18 p.m.
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Just over the East China Sea,
Mount Pinatubo trembles.
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In one week, it will explode in the most spectacular
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volcanic eruption the Philippines has ever known.
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Fifty-eight thousand people will evacuate.
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Officials took the warning signs seriously, thanks to Katia
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and Maurice's film about understanding volcanoes.
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Across the world,
near the French-German border,
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the Vosges and Rhine fault lines shift imperceptibly beneath a sleeping Earth.
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