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Mount Vesuvius is the only active vulcano on mainland Europe, famous for the eruption of 79 AD.

If there are any cliched images of the bay of Naples then they probably look a lot like this.

The lower slopes of Vesuvius are fertile but the landscape becomes increasingly bleek the higher you ascend.

A precursor of the weather conditions I was to face that day; unbelievably the sky was crystal clear the next.

Ascending a mountain is one of the oldest metaphors of a struggle to find oneself.

The landscape was at times more lunar than earthly; at least under the heavy cloud cover there were the remnants of civilization.

I think anyone with more sense and less pride than I would have turned back at this point.

The end of over two hours of walking and a whole day's endeavour: the crater was closed due to the lack of visibility.
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