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The joy of volcano-chasing

Mary Wakefield talks to the director of a new film about two doomed scientists who set off to the edge of every crater like a pair of mad moths drawn to a candle flame

Charming and funny but tough as nuts: Maurice and Katia Krafft. Credit: Image’Est

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