excursion Archives

Etna: the eruption is going to end, but …

Posted on 20/02/2025 (20/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Twelve days after the start of the effusive eruption on Mount Etna, it seems that everything is about to end. The phenomenon started from a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater on February 8, has produced – in almost two weeks – a long lava flow that has descended on the western […]

Etna: eruption update and some advice

Posted on 15/02/2025 (15/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Seven days have passed since the start of the new eruption of Mount Etna, triggered by a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater (although fed by the South East conduit), which is affecting the western flank of the volcano. How is the eruptive activity continuing? Initially, a river of very liquid lava […]

Valle del Bove, from oxen to goats

Posted on 03/02/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Valle del Bove (the Ox Valley) is a landscape that everyone knows and everyone loves. It is that large depression that opens on the eastern flank of Mount Etna, the result of an ancient collapse (or landslide) dating over 60,000 years ago, when the primitive volcanic building of Etna – called Mt Trifoglietto – collapsed […]

Respect the rules: on the mountains and on volcanoes

Posted on 27/01/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Here we are again. Talking again about mountain accidents, counting the victims again (two deaths) on a normal Sunday like many others. Sometimes we get discouraged, because it seems like we are repeating things to the wind. If respecting the rules and laws is fundamental in common civilization, it is even more so when you […]

A Pidata du Diavolo, the Devil’s Footprint

Posted on 20/01/2025 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

There is a Mount Etna that is little known to tourists, and it is the one linked to ancient legends. Because before the natural spectacle of the eruptions and even before the Christian devotional tradition, the territory of our volcano was the heart of ancient tales. Every culture has left its own and many are […]