The crater at the peak of a snowy volcano - Main image - Dr Emma Nicholson’s team were the first humans to reach the crater atop the remote volcano, Mount Michael. Photograph by Renan Ozturk, National Geographic
The crater at the peak of a snowy volcano - Main image - Dr Emma Nicholson's team were the first humans to reach the crater atop the remote volcano, Mount Michael. Photograph by Renan Ozturk, National Geographic A team led by Dr Emma Nicholson climbed the summit of an active volcano on a remote, sub-Antarctic island, confirming the existence of a lava lake within its crater. Now they're back, analysing their data to better understand volcanoes and their environmental impacts. Mount Michael is a volcano shrouded in mystery. Only a handful of people have ever landed on the remote Saunders Island it sits atop, and before the expedition led by Dr Nicholson (UCL Earth Sciences), no one had ever scaled the summit. The few glimpses from space that have slipped through the almost constant cloud cover have tantalised volcanologists. "It's been known for several decades now that Mount Michael hosts a persistent thermal anomaly at its summit.
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