
Most of us like to go somewhere warm for our holidays – but balancing on the brink of an erupting volcano could result in far more than mere sunburn. This incredible picture shows the moment when one tourist edged towards a torrent of spewing lava, risking life and limb for a holiday snap. Unfazed, with his back to the bubbling crater, the man smiles easily, as if he was standing next to an ornamental fountain.
Photographer Denis Budkov caught the incident at the Plosky Tolbachik volcano in the far east of Russia.
NOTE: some sources claim it was a woman and some it was a man.