Ijen Volcano, East Java, Indonesia - Strongest Men In The World!
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Uploaded by glenmaynard on Oct 9, 2009
During a recent trip to Indonesia I got to meet some of the strongest men in the world while climbing Volcano Ijen in East Java. These men spend all day carrying sulfur weighing 100kgs down the volcano.
"Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 meters, a surface of 41 × 106 square meters. It is 200 meters deep and has a volume of 36 × 106 cubic meters.
The cooled material (sulfur) is broken into large pieces and carried out in baskets by the miners. Typical loads range from 70100 kilograms, and must be carried to the crater rim approximately 200 meters above before being carried several kilometers down the mountain. Most miners make this journey twice a day. The miners are paid by a nearby sugar refinery by the weight of sulfur transported; as of July 2005 the typical daily earnings were equivalent to approximately $5.00 US. The miners often use insufficient protection while working around the volcano and are susceptible to numerous respiratory complaints."
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I was recently here, although the weather wasn't nearly as nice as it was for you.
Fun fact: when it rained around the crater the acid levels in the water (from the sulfur) are so high that silver rings start to rapidly tarnish!
burhanb 1 year ago