Watch: A Night Spent Inside an Active Volcano

Would you sleep near hot molten lava? This man did.

Man spends a night very close to splashing lava.

(Photo: AP/Caters)

These incredible images were captured as a group of daring explorers slept just metres from the lava of an active volcano.

Amazingly this isn’t the first time that photographer Christopher Horsley has slept inside an active volcano.

Christopher took these unbelievable shots while on a trip to Benbow in Vanuatu – a pacific island nation.

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Lava from Mount Benbow.

While the 25-year-old, who is originally from Liverpool, travels the world taking stunning pictures, he says there’s something about volcanoes that never stops astounding him.

Travelling the world with my camera took me to some beautiful places – even spending three months living with a tribe in Papua New Guinea... At 25, I have led more roped descents to lava lakes than anyone on this planet...Volcanoes never cease to amaze me. They have such destructive power, aggression and beauty. A lava lake is like watching a glass bottomed boat, a small porthole into the earth.

Christopher Horsley, Photographer

“Already having slept inside two other erupting volcanoes, and knowing the incredible experience of watching molten rock at night, I offered to share the experience with Jack, whose thrust for the extreme rivals my own.”

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Video Editor: Ashutosh Bhardwaj

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