Maggie Fergusson

The man who loves volcanoes

Clive Oppenheimer feels a deep kinship with the many volcanoes he has studied. When he is airlifted from Mount Erebus, he suffers ‘the heartache of leaving a lover’

Mount Etna erupts on 15 August, spewing ash over Catania and closing the airport. [Getty Images]

  • Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes

    Clive Oppenheimer

    Hodder & Stoughton, pp. 357, £25

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