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| Photos: Bertrand Claude |
Acid volcanoes exist. I am never going to complain again. Or sleep soundly. The world is a fucking video game level isn't it? Acid volcanoes and monsters and weird puzzles you have to unlock every time you go into a room by running upside down on a wall.
The point here is, whenever I complain about my perfect, downright fucking ideal life or job (relatively speaking) in front of someone else, I try to pull it back a little by saying, well, at least it's not digging a ditch. You know what those dude say? At least it's not harvesting sulfur from an acid volcano in Indonesia, because yiiiiikkkkkes, this job, this is not a good job.
"If there is any job on Earth that could be described as hellish, it's sulfur mining on Kawah Ijen. Every day the miners' work requires them to break up and haul heavy loads of solidified sulfur, once known as brimstone, through toxic gasses and over difficult terrain. All this is done with little in the way of protective clothing or equipment."
"Once they have filled and positioned their baskets, the miners must make their way up out of the caldera. This is no easy task, as the trip covers a distance of 300 meters (984 ft) up a 45 to 60 degree slope, all while balancing an incredibly heavy load." Go read the rest here.
Meanwhile, here's some asshole who thought it would be a good idea to take a boat out onto the acid volcano lake. "Out I go. I was confident that the rubber would survive the acid but I did have my doubts about the seams and the metal paddles." Better chance it anyway bro.
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3 comments:
It's an hour later and I already feel like complaining. This isn't going to be easy.
That's fucking gross. Those pictures are awesome though.
Can you imagine the smell? A tiny little piece of sulfur makes the entire room smell like demon dick.
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