🤦🏼♂️📵 What's worse: Dying tragically trying to rescue your phone, or living to read global headlines about your vacation mishap?
The 23-year-old was rescued and treated for minor injuries, according to Sky News , but now faces charges for being on a closed route near the active volcano's summit.
The accident occured on Saturday , after the young American tourist accidently dropped his phone into the crater at Vesuvius' peak. While scrambling down several meters to reach the phone, the man lost his balance and fell several meters more. According to The Guardian, local guides rappelled down to rescue the man, who was treated for cuts and bruises. A mountain rescue helicopter was also launched to assist. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano towering 4,042 feet tall.
For now, the"Gran Cono" on top of Vesuvius is dangerous not because of imminent eruptions, but due to the effects of gravity. The walls are made up of steep cliffs and volcanic scree, or broken fragments of rocky debris. The crater also hosts active vents that occasionally burp out steam and gas. The rescued tourist and several family members who were with him had taken a route up the mountain that was closed and marked as dangerous, according to The Guardian.
Vesuvius is most famous for its A.D. 79 eruption that entombed the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii in a pyroclastic cloud of ash. That eruption killed thousands – the exact death toll is unknown – with a rain of ash and rock, extreme heat, and suffocating clouds of toxic gas.
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