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Heart-pounding video shows hikers fleeing down Mount Ontake from a deadly torrent of superheated ash

If you’ve ever wondered what my nightmares are like, they pretty much go like this. On Sept. 27, a group of hikers was enjoying the fall weather on the Japanese volcano Mount Ontake. Suddenly, the volcano erupted, letting loose an incredible pyroclastic flow, a torrent of superheated ash that barrels down the slopes of the volcano like a thundering wall of death. The hikers tried to get away, but the […]