Hiking Mt. Vesuvius - The Worlds Deadliest Volcano HD
3,129 views · Published 18 March 2013 · 2:22 · Indexed 23 October 2026
Channel: ricker · 2013 · Travel & Events
Please rate comment and subscribe. This video was shot during my 14 day holy land cruise on Celebrity cruise lines. The climb I believe is 650 meters from the area where you park. I will admit I did get a little winded, but overall it was a fairly easy hike. From a top of the mountain you can see the surrounding City of Naploli and Pompeii. There are two little buildings up on the summit which has snacks sodas and souvenirs. There is seismograph stations on top to monitor for tremors and earthquakes just in case she starts rumbling again. Vesuvius is a distinctive "humpbacked" mountain, consisting of a large cone. The height of the main cone has been constantly changed by eruptions but is 1,281 m (4,203 ft) at present. Monte Somma is 1,149 m (3,770 ft) high, separated from the main cone by the valley of Atrio di Cavallo, which is some 5 km (3.1 mi) long. The slopes of the mountain are scarred by lava flows but are heavily vegetated, with scrub and forest at higher altitudes and vineyards lower down. Vesuvius is still regarded as an active volcano, although its current activity produces little more than steam from vents at the bottom of the crater. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate. Layers of lava, scoria, volcanic ash, and pumice make up the mountain. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 20.5 miles, spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing. An estimated 16,000 people died due to hydrothermal pyroclastic flows Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years. Today, it is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people living nearby and its tendency towards explosive (Plinian) eruptions. It is the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.
