Climbing an active volcano and taking pictures of the eruption was on my bucket list for some years. When travelling to Guatemala, there was no doubt that the Fuego Vulcano was very high on my "to-do" list.
Because climbing an active volcano is not without danger – in 2018, 159 people were killed by an eruption of the Fuego – I searched the internet for the volcano's recent activity. I couldn't find any more than average activity, so I decided to give it a go.
I decided to do a two-day trek and stay overnight on the Acatenango volcano next to the Fuego Vulcano. The top of the Acatenango volcano is at 3976 meters altitude, but you sleep at a high of approximately 3600 meters. In the morning, you descend from Acatenango and then ascend to climb Fuego. You stand on a ridge, just where the people in this photo stand, where you have a great view over the erupting Fuego Vulcano.
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