Italiens Vulkane - Vom Vesuv zum Ätna

Reiseleitung

The expedition will be accompanied by a professional volcanologist and geologist from our team with extensive experience on the Italian volcanoes. Normally, this is either volcanologist Yashmin Chebli or company founder Tom Pfeiffer.
Yashmin Chebli (1970) is trained geologist with a university Master's degree and member of SGF (Société Géologique de France). He has been working as tour guide and expedition leader to actives volcanoes, volcano photographer and consultant for more than 30 years. His areas of expertise include the active volcanoes in Italy, Vanuatu, the Hawaiian Islands, Guatemala, RD of Congo, Tanzania, Costa Rica and others. Besides his mother tongue French, Yashmin speaks several languages including English, Italian, and Spanish.
Website: www.vanuatu-expedition.com (photos) and Youtube channel!
Dr. Tom Pfeiffer (1970) is a German volcanologist with a PhD degree in geology about the volcanic history of Santorini volcano from the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
For more than 20 years, Tom has been working on volcanic systems (Hawai'i and Vesuvius volcano observatories), observing volcanic eruptions around the world and organizing guided tours to active volcanoes in Europe (Santorini, Etna, Stromboli,...), Kilauea on Hawaii as well as in Africa and Indonesia. During his travels, he found his strongest passion in photography (link to his book) and the sharing of his knowledge and new travel adventures with people outside the scientific community. He first started a tour company in 2004 and is still guiding most VolcanoAdventures tours in Greece and Italy as well as the pilot expeditions and special eruption tours.

His other professional activities include a large number of articles about volcanoes published in newspapers and magazines such as National Geographic, Scientific American and others. Tom also participated in documentary film productions about Santorini (“The myth of the lost city of Atlantis”, "Mystery Hunters", both on Discovery Channel) and Stromboli (“Quarks and co: Vulkane” on the German television channel WDR), as well as the ongoing documentary series about active volcanoes "Volcanic Odysseys" by Canadian filmmaker Michael Dalton (Love Nature & Smithsonian Channel).

Besides his German mother tongue, Tom speaks English, Danish and Italian fluently and can also communicate in Greek, French and some Spanish. He lived for 7 years in Denmark, spent about 2 years in Italy and worked one year on Santorini, Greece, before moving to Athens in 2004.

Körperliche Voraussetzungen

Diese Reise erfordert eine gute allgemeine körperliche Verfassung und einige Wandererfahrung. Die Zeit für individuelle Ausflüge beträgt zwischen 1 Stunde und ca. 6-8 Stunden, einschließlich Pausen, aber diese Zeiten sind variabel, da sie auch vom Wetter abhängen, Gelegenheiten, vulkanische Aktivitäten zu beobachten und zu fotografieren. Die meisten Wanderungen sind ziemlich einfach, mit Kletteranstrengungen zwischen 100-400 m und Gehzeiten unter 3 Std. Ausnahmen sind der anstrengendere Aufstieg zum Gipfel des Stromboli, wo etwa 900 Höhenmeter zu bewältigen sind, und der potentielle Aufstieg zu den Gipfelkratern des Ätna, die bis zu 4 Stunden oder mehr des gesamten Spaziergangs dauern können (Wetter und vulkanische Aktivitäten, die diese Wanderungen ermöglichen) . Diese letzteren Exkursionen können als optional betrachtet werden und können von allen oder einem Teil der Gruppe verkürzt werden (Möglichkeit zur Aufteilung, siehe Programm für Details). Personen mit Asthma oder anderen Atembeschwerden sollten sich an ihren Arzt wenden und werden gebeten, uns darüber vorher zu informieren.