We shouldn't have been surprised that Europe's most active volcano was likely to erupt while we were hiking on it.

We went on a 4-day trip to Sicily to celebrate Viv's birthday, and since it's home to mainland Europe's highest volcano, we also brought crampons.

Mount Etna was calm the first few days of the trip, including the day we decided to climb it.
The route started on a ski piste where everyone was enjoying a ski holiday, aside from us doing mountaineering and a bunch of blokes doing ski touring.

As the hours passed climbing higher on snow and volcanic rock, Etna started to throw more smoke and ash off its craters.


At some point Etna looked visibly different from the volcano we started climbing in the morning, we were concerned...

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