They often do the events at volcanic quarries or volcanoes, so the landings are usually fairly soft (not always).
It's often the case that no one 'makes it' (to 'make it' you have to stop all the way at the top past the last markers and often turn around and drive back down, 3:35 didn't stop or even pass the markers), so they measure who made it the farthest up.

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Here is some footage looking back the other way, to the volcano:



According to Turi Scandurra, the kids got a day off school on Monday from it

*backup=[...snipped...] and thanks to dailypicksandflicks.com for finding the original video, which I hadn't.

p.s. The filmmaker posted a comment to liveleak:

I'm the filmmaker, I'd like to share a couple of notes.
The "raining" of ashes from Mt. Etna is not rare, but this time it was unusually intense. Some towns nearby were hit even harder.
It lasted more than 30 minutes.
Yes, cars got scratched, some windshields got chipped. But no Ferrari's or Lamborghini's around!
The biggest pain is to clean up, we have to collect ash into sacks and stash them at the corners for a special service to collect them. It will take weeks to get rid of it all.
We have to wear masks while cleaning because thin ashes are believed to hurt your lungs.
Pompei was not covered with the same kind of ashes, but with a massive cloud of gas and burning ashes that can be found only at the top of Mt.Etna. We're safe down here (~60Km from the volcano.)
@caar1970 at 1:27 I'm wiping ash from a tiled floor, not a car.
@Joxed My vespa can handle dirt very well. It's not unsafe if you drive slow like I did.

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Posted 12 hours ago By turisc

Holy Shit, stonado. WTF exploding balls of rocky ice? CGIce balls, TVs gettin' SO fuckin' stupid! Dint they just have some tornado drop sharks and alligators on towns?
Tornadoes are stand-alone insanity like volcanoes, but I'd rather live at the foot of a volcano than in tornado alley. Better victory gardens and more lead-time to GTFO.

Put 40mg in a Volcano and hit that in two hits. Pull each hit in, hold it in your lungs as deep as possible for 30 seconds if you can. Then do it again (if you can). You will see what I am mean by "Quantum".

All time will stop. But you will be propelled at the speed of light into another life. It is a "Quantum Leap" by all means. See for yourself, if you dare.

But you will no longer be "you" because the force will have killed you completely and you will have accepted your death, only to wake up after the "carrier wave" had completely destroyed everything that you ever imagined and knew of (while you are in outerspace), to wake up anew and in a different realm completely. Don't believe me? You don't have to, place 40mg in your pipe and smoke it.

@probie and artician

No army? Good. Always been fine with an army of one-Now what with them printable zip-guns, no-worries.

I still need the volcano surrounded by ocean though-Costa Rica has too many Americans anyhow-Rather live where I'm a less-than 1% minority.

My personal 5-yr-plan for expatriation began yesterday. If I have to live in any country, I have 3 criteria:

Must be an active volcano within 20 miles and surrounded by ocean
Must be able to dive for shellfish and angle for salt-water fishes from the shore
Tourism economy with the only Americans there visitors or fellow expatriates with the bulk of tourists coming from Europe and other.

I'm shooting for the south-eastern Windward isles, where I can with an EU passport, travel freely to Cuba. Not to mention Jamaica and South America.

It's not so much the fucked government, they're fucked everywhere. It's all about quality of life-Good, fresh, UNTAINTED food, great music, and NO FUCKING AMERICANS!

I used to love my country before the machine started breeding idiots, now all that's left here are ineffectual robots who talk a lot, saying nothing and doing less. As far as I'm concerned, y'all can have this motherfucker....Oh, and I'm gonna join the Freemasons when I get there as well, 'cause Freemasonry KICKS ASS!

K, I read Tucker Max in college. There's a much more offensive and disgusting story about a girl's first anal experience where Tucker empties the entire bottle of lube up her butt while his friend is in a bedroom closet filming it.

Too much lube, it fires out like a lube-shit volcano, his friend vomits, stumbling out of the closest from the stench, and all three of them end up tangled up in the middle of a shit-lube comforter on the ground.

Love how it gets so discordant-y there at the end. Can't say that I understood the visuals though [especially the talcum powdered volcano]

Every time i hear about iceland i wanna say the name of the volcano their pfff wat a harsh thing to do!

Lyrics:
Im gonna smoke some weed, only got 20 dollas in my pocket
Imma huntin, looking for a pot shop, this is fucking awesome!

Walk into my house like what up, i got some good pot
I'm just pumped up got some herb from the pot shop
Ice in my fridge it used to be frosty
My friends like "Damn, that's a stoned ass donkey!"
Rollin' in hella high, looking like it's fifa time
Dominating all my friends, as I eat some chili fries
Draped in a snuggie with my girl sitting next to me
Probably shouldn't have had a big gulp full of ice tea
PISS!
But shit it was 99 cents!

I be blazin and smokin it
Bout to go and get some munchie snacks, passing up on those cracker jacks
Reeces Pieces are where it's at, Gotta get me some soda pop
Cotton mouth has been creeping up
But can't remember where I put my keys,
Yeah, that's what's up.
Imma take your grandpa's ride, Imma take your grandpa's ride
No for real, ask your grandpa, Can I take his 65?
Deville Cruisin to my local Publix
Nothing better than rolling with 2 super fly chicks!
They had frozen burritos, I bought frozen burritos
I bought some Ben and Jerry's, then I bought some Cheetos
Hello, Hello, my main man Obama
A couple states have just reformed their laws on marijuana
Whatcha gonna do, send the feds there? Hell no!
The DEA's would be like "Ah, they got Volcano"

What you know about the science of marijuana?
What you know about people suffering from glaucoma?
They need it, they need it, it helps them with their condition
If don't believe me, then just ask some eye physicians
Thank your granddad for voting for that guy Richard
Nixon is the President who made the plant illegal
But science is now showing that its medicine for people
And the private sector's fighting to keep all of that illegal
Alcohol and Tobacco, Pharmaceutical, Prisons
I'll take those four major lobby groups and fight those motherfuckers
They making money day and night, all those motherfuckers
And bribing congress out of sight, all those motherfuckers
They be like, "Oh, it's immoral and unhealthy"
I'm like how many people are you making wealthy
Anti-marijuana lobbies are making all kinds of profits
And they don't want you to stop it cause of all the special interests
I call that getting swindled and pimped, shit
I call that getting tricked by the government, that law's hella old
So its time to update it, regulate it, and then get it under state control
Peep Game, look into my political telescope
Think it's going to stay like this forever, nah, it hella won't, nah, it hella won't.

Let's end the war on drugs, It's time to pull the plug
These special interest groups are nothing more than corporate thugs
Let's end the war on weed, the people have agreed.
These special interest groups have kept these laws with bribery

Imma smoke some weed, only got 20 dollas in my pocket
Imma huntin, looking for a pot shop, this is fucking awesome!

I've also hiked the Hawaiian volcano fields. Your shoes may not survive the surface. But it is an unbelievably awesome thing to do. Very otherworldly and beautiful.

Thanks folks. Much better response than the last time I tried that comment.

Shinyblurry,

You are invited to my house. I have a nice house, I will transport you with my Lexus SUV from the train station through the extinct volcanoes to my house where I will make you comfortable, bring your Bible keep it handy. Then I will give you a MAOI a natural substance and then I will give you another natural pill. These both have been used for many more thousands of years than Christianity has even been around.

Then you tell me what you see and feel. I assure you, you will not be saying demons, you will have no idea of how to describe what you are seeing except that you are feeling God and God is feeling you. You may even realize that there is no God but that is the only way you know how to describe it. Once you experience this, once again, something that has been around before most religions, then you can tell me your opinion. But, until you do, my door is open to you but your opinion is pretty much meaningless. I am a non judgmental person, I understand that you just do not know because you have not had this natural experience