Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Mount

From one volcano to another! We are on on Mount Sibayak (Indonesian: Gunung Sibayak) an active Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano peaking at 2,181 m (7,156 ft). The other volcano is Mount Sinabung, about 15km to the southwest, that in 2010 erupted after a 400-year-long hiatus, a blink of an eye in geological time. Both volcanoes are part of the Barisan Mountain range that runs NW-SE for a 1000 miles along the whole length of Sumatra parallel to the Sumatra Trench & includes 35 active volcanoes. Although its last eruption was more than a century ago, Sibayak has geothermal activity in the form of steam vents and hot springs on and around the volcano. The vents produce crystalline sulfur, which was being mined on a small scale in 1979 (men carrying sacks down the mountain on their backs). Seepage of sulfurous gases has also caused acidic discolouration of the small crater lake part of which can be seen bottom middle.

The view across Mounts Bay from Mousehole harbour - approx. 7km. The island of St Michael's Mount was gifted to the Benedictine order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century and it was a priory of that abbey until the dissolution of the alien houses as a side-effect of the war in France by Henry V.

On this beautiful autumn day St. Michael’s Mount across the bay was clearly visible and worth a telephoto shot from the sea front by Penzance station. St Michael's Mount is a tidal island in Mount's Bay and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water.

A family group on the climb up to the monastery atop Taung Kalat, a volcanic plug on the slope of the main Mount Popa volcano, rising 225m above the village. The site is a popular pilgrimage destination, and is considered a source of nat spiritual energy. The monastery is reached after a gruelling climb up the 777 steps and en route there are plenty of these animals to snatch the food from the unwary!