Front cover image for Nyiragongo, the forbidden volcano

Nyiragongo, the forbidden volcano

Print Book, English, 1979
Barron's/Woodbury, New York, 1979
287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780812052961, 081205296X
4114550
Forbidden volcano: 1947, 1953: First explorations
Marriage of fire and water
Visit to Nyiragongo
At the edge of the pit
Secret team
First scientific expedition: 1958: Preparations
Team of researchers
Operation windlass
Descent into hell
First harvest
On the shores of the lake of lava: Camp number two
Seismology, magnetism, and gravimetry
Torrid breath of Nyiragongo
Big mouth
Under the lip of the crater
Three days of study
Spectography
Formidable power
Misadventures of a volcanologist: 1966, 1967: Benevolent crater
Brief incursion
Mount Etna
Preparations and diplomats
View of things to come
Fifty-nine men in a crater
Eighteen men against a volcano: 1972: Overflow
Farewell to the explorers
Frights and fears
Challenge
H-hour
Translation of Niragongo