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IIRC when Mount Saint Helens erupted in the 80s it blew the top half of the volcano off.
Yeah and slightly off topic wasn't the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?
Yes. Heroic deed it was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg
Such a simple but beautiful act of love to spend your last moments of life doing that knowing that if those photos might help people understand volcanoes and their associated hazards even a tiny better in the future it was worth it.
You could call it tragic, and of course it is, but I prefer to call it badass.
Thanks for adding the link. He was a real one, deserves to be remembered
I think so
Had to look this up. It was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg
RIP
That's Robert Landsburg although I don't think his photos are very famous.
The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.
So much awesome power in that eruption (with non-awesome human and nature/animal consequences).
http://mountsthelens.com/history-1.html
This article is a good play-by-play of how the eruption physically progressed, I particularly like this illustration.