Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

It is dawn, and I’m nervous. ‘Just how active is “active”?’ I ask the guide. ‘Don’t
worry, we always check the seismic forecast before we leave,’ he assures me.
There are certain things you want to know before summiting a 5282ft (1610m)
live volcano. I’m on the island of Ometepe in the middle of vast Lake Nicaragua.
The island is shaped like a figure of eight lying in the water, each side a volcano.
On the southeast side there’s Maderas, its slopes covered in cloud forest. Its last
known eruption was in the Pleistocene epoch. Concepción, the one I’m hiking up
today, last erupted a bit more recently. Like, 2010 recently. It was no big deal,
though, the hotel owner tells me. Just a big ash cloud.