Etna Mission

2007-06-10, Etna, Italy

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So we finally headed up Etna and bloody hell was it a mission... it was one of the scariest days of my life... decided to mission up solo as it was quiet expensive to get the cable cart etc.

We were well prepared for the mission as i was wearing my Asics sports trainers and Albana was wearing her Playboy slippers... perfect Hiking Atire. We we laughed at by a few proffessionals at the bottom but we knew who would be laughing in the end!

It was so scary... at times we couldn't see 5 yards in front of ourselves so we were just walking up and hoping for the best and it was so steep!!#

The scariest part was when a guy came running down next to us looking so scared we tried to ask him in as many languages as possible (Albana speaks 5) what was wrong but he just kept running! Hell! But in the end we made it... as you will see by the pictures it felt at times we were on the moon and we left our mark by munching our left over melons on route up and that was literally the only thing around apart from Rocks and Snow!

The craziest thing of all was getting to the top... with it being so bloody cold but when you touched the ground it was boiling hot... amazing!

We got in a bit of a fight with a driver of a truck on the way down... which was ridiculous!

We got given two tickets by a women who had spares as her friends had walked down instead but the driver wouldn't let us on because we hadn't bought them... scandelous!! he soon changed his ways though... i think he saw my stare and stepped down... i wish!

The final random stat to write is that the only living things up Mount Etna are Ladybirds... there are shit loads of them!

Up and down in 5hours... profesional pace.. who's laughing now!!