Future Perfect » Knocking on the Door to Hell "the 65m wide Darvaza gas crater. It used to be a modest Soviet mine shaft that collapsed into a cavern of gas... local engineers set the gas on on fire – it's its been burning and lighting up the desert sky ever since. Even for an experience junkie a visit to the crater is difficult to adequately describe... a couple of hours driving through the relentless desert to reach from Ashgabat; it's a very large 65m x...
Published on June 07, 2010 21:05