A tourist fell into Mount Vesuvius while trying to get his phone back.
According to Sky News, the young man was rescued and treated for minor injuries, but now faces charges for being near the active volcano's summit.
A young American tourist accidentally dropped his phone into the crater at Vesuvius' peak. The man lost his balance as he tried to reach the phone. Local guides rappelled down to rescue the man, who was injured. A helicopter was sent to help.
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Vesuvius is a volcano with a height of over 4,000 feet. The crater is about 1000 feet deep. There are no public trails into the crater of the mountain. Since the 1944 blast, the volcano has not experienced any significant eruptions. In the event of a large eruption, hundreds of thousands of people in the immediate vicinity would need to be evacuated, as well as millions more in the port city of Naples.
The Gran Cono is dangerous because of the effects of gravity. The walls are made up of rocks that have fallen. There are active vent that burp out steam and gas. The rescued tourist and several family members who were with him took a route up the mountain that was closed and marked as dangerous. All are facing charges for invading public land.
The man was lucky to have escaped with only minor injuries when he was near the summit of the volcano. A man was seriously injured when the ground beneath him crumbled after he climbed over a barrier around the crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. A 75-year-old man fell into the same crater and died. An 11 year old boy fell into boiling mud and his parents tried to save him, but all three died.
The towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii were destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. The exact death toll from that eruption is unknown, with a rain of ash and rock and extreme heat.
It was originally published on Live Science
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