write a short story on 'mountain has spoken'
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THE MOUNTAIN HAS SPOKEN
As if to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its last major outburst, on September 18, 1995, Ruapehu sprang unexpectedly from repose to violent activity. Over the next few weeks a white plume billowed to over ten kilometres above the mountain, raining black showers of ash across most of the North Island and disrupting air and ground traffic. On the night of October 11, with most of the water from the crater lake exhausted , molten magma fountained from the crater for several hours. Shafts of lightening cracked through the base of the dense ash cloud every few seconds. Fire had come to the mountain again.
WRITTEN BY JOSIE HARBUTT
“JUST ONE MORE shot,” Helen begs. For over a year, she has been photographing the North Island’s volcanic central plateau: its sudden peaks in a flat tussock desert, its boiling pools a stone’s throw from ice-cold lakes. Now her year is up, and I, as part-time tripod carrier, am ready to go home.
It is a cold evening in mid-September. Not a good time to be sitting in Dome Shelter, on Mt Ruapehu’s summit plateau. But, as I have learned well by now, photographers are not easily dissuaded.
I shield Helen from the fierce southerly wind as she works. Glad of the comfort of my Gore-tex and polypropylene, I glance at the usually grey-green crater lake. It is black and still. Not a puff of steam anywhere. I think of the bad weather threatening, the sinking sun, the ghosts of six dead soldiers, killed in 1990 in a storm a few metres from where I’m standing. The mountain, I am convinced, wants to be alone.
Forty-eight hours after those photographs were taken, on September 18, Ruapehu erupted, sending a lahar (mud flow) skating down the Whangaehu River. More eruptions followed. On the 23rd and 25th, lahars blossomed on all sides of the mountain, filling the Whangaehu, the Whakapapaiti and the Mangaturuturu Rivers with silt and debris. Locals watched wide-eyed as black mud snaked down snow-white slopes, and national newspapers filled with stories of roads closing, planes grounded and army families evacuating from Waiouru.
On September 25, a toilet block next to the Tangiwai bridge filled with mud. In 1953, a lahar destroyed the railway bridge at Tangiwai, killing 151 people when the Wellington to Auckland express plunged into the Whangaehu River.
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