Who’s here after Mount Ruapehu is raised to level 2 alert?

@purple1017

3 жыл бұрын

me

@mizzmaldita2342

3 жыл бұрын

Me to

@chelycesteel6402

3 жыл бұрын

Yess

@TheBJW88

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is still relevant in 2022

@haz3303

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBJW88 yes lol I’m here cause of tht aswell

You owe this helicopter driver your life. One ball Z vulcanologist!! Spectacular . I have no words that can describe it. Absolutely amazing.

I saw this in front of me - travelling back to Wellington from the Coromandel. Memory is seared into my mind. So Awesome

@psydwaindah

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky! Every time I've driven the desert road it7s been boringly safe...

@alscott

4 жыл бұрын

@@psydwaindah It was completely awe inspiring. Watching the eruption and then seeing that every single car travelling on the desert road all pulled over to stop, then leaving the area we saw the NZ army deploying what must've been in response to the full bore eruption taking place! It's an experience I'm very lucky to have witnessed yet at the time I was a little uneasy so was keen to jump back in the car & keep the pedal down! Aotearoa at it's most intense! Except for the time I wound up in the living room of my local gang leaders, a story for another time that is, ✌

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

I was hitchhiking on the Desert Rd within the 30km exclusion zone in 1996 when Mt Ruapehu went 💥Best thing I've ever seen in my WHOLE life!

Who's here after the White Island Volcano eruption?

@theblackesthat7833

4 жыл бұрын

Sitting here in ohakune 18ks from turoa top carpark.

@karlosfandango6637

4 жыл бұрын

I did the Tongariro crossing in December 2007. Heard about the Ruhapeu eruption on the news after we did it.

@susanjacquier5358

4 жыл бұрын

Yup..came up on my 'recommend'. I never knew much about these volcanoes before

@nemospence2724

4 жыл бұрын

@@susanjacquier5358 Me as well. We are both learning. I am more concerned right now because my brother is a crew on the ship that carried those passengers who died on the White Island. My brother was supposed to go there as well as what he told us. But he decided to wash his clothes instead.

@ThoughtfulAl

4 жыл бұрын

Me. Was driving past Ruapehu when the eruption happened in 95

It was fun skiing when the mountain was erupting. Watching the eruption from the ski club over night was something I'll never forget.

@zaynevanday142

2 жыл бұрын

That would be hard as the ski field had been closed the week prior 😂

Better than National Geographic!!! Awesome to see the power of the volcano!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Just visited the place yesterday, now im fascinated to learn more about it, what a gem!!

This is by far the best volcano video I've seen up to this point! Just amazing shots......

@geoffmackley

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers thanks glad you enjoyed it

Was in the NZ Army at the time of the eruption 🌋 inside an M113 APC all we heard over the radio was “Holy shit the mountains exploding” we stopped opened up the top hatch and all of us stuck our heads out and watched the Ruapehu Eruption 🌋 in awe we had only just started an Exercise that was supposed to last 2 weeks and got sent back to Waiouru camp then back on home to Burnham in the South Island all by road and rail as the planes had been grounded due to the ash by the time we got home 3 days later all our cars outside the barracks were covered in 3 inches of ash

Extraordinary work of recording the volcanic eruption right in the centre of the North Island 👌 Aotearoa is spectacularly magnificent.

We were in our boat on Lake Taupo when this eruption started in 1995. Everyone was in disbelief! Great footage!!

3 years after the eruption. I was watching a VHS TV recorded movie and when the ads came on there was a news report of the eruption. So I rang my friends in oakune to see if they ok. They looked out window and said the mountain looks fine. 🤣🤣🤣

Standing on the crater edge of an erupting volcano - how kiwi is that?

@mayflowers6219

2 жыл бұрын

😎 Gotta love it ❤

@user7966

2 жыл бұрын

they are fucking close eh 😂

We were at the base of Mt Ruapehu that day, conducting an Urban Search & Rescue exercise as part of a training course. Had to make a speedy retreat from the mountain. The amount of ash raining down was phenomenal. The most amazing thing was that the eruption was almost silent.

@allyourpiesarebelongtous

10 жыл бұрын

Can get apparently quiet eruptions if you're that close to the volcano. Depends on the acoustic radiation pattern and refraction of waves through the atmosphere. Similar effect observed at Mt. St. Helens in 1980.

@maayongaga729

6 жыл бұрын

Mark O'Connor We don't nuclear...just throw this Moron that keeps making nuclear head to the mouth of the volcano so he would find out what he's making.

@Tasarte

5 жыл бұрын

Amazing, this is another occasion where massive explosions that could be hear hundreds of miles around, are silent for many people close to the eruption

@yeah381

4 жыл бұрын

I remember shock waves rattling windows in Hawke's Bay during the eruption, well over 100 kms away

@RaitoReaper

2 жыл бұрын

Me & my parents were there too at a cabin near the base. I was 3 years old

on this day in '95 i was at primary school.. upon arriving at the school gate all you could see to the south was thicks bacl clouds estimate 150km away .. come lunch time the ash fell covered the school grounds... a mere 5 years old cant remember the emotions but i can remember seeing the cars buildings covered in ash.. spectacular!! and to see the eruption like this is amazing .. i will be sharing this video with family and friends... major events in nz history

@fallenangel_899

5 жыл бұрын

I didnt existed lmao

@theringmaster886

4 жыл бұрын

Was a great day lol

@repentorperish1405

4 жыл бұрын

In the long run, and the greater scheme of things, all this sulphurous mineral rich ash actually blesses the soil of the land with renewed fertility. That's why in places like Bali, Hawaii, and other places near active volcanos the soil is nearly always very rich, fertile, and productive.

@zaynevanday142

2 жыл бұрын

It was 1996 😂

@masterkronixster

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaynevanday142 close enuff

We were on Turoa on Monday Sept 23rd 1995 the first day of the eruption (if memory serves me correctly). Naively (no mobile phones, no tv and no radio) we went home cooked a roast and drank a bottle of red. The following morning we drove up to the 13km barrier on the mountain. After 20 minutes of watching the relatively innocuous steam plumes an eruption the shape of black jesters hat exploded out the side of the cone. We turned the car around and never looked back. Sadly the few photos I took I lost a few years later - pre digital error. If anyone has photos fro the Turoa 13km barrier please post them.

@missk1942

4 жыл бұрын

I was on the moutain with two learner friends on the day teaching them to snowboard. It was late in the afternoon the chairlifts were closed I brought them out west, told them it would be an easy enough run 😳... .then it blew. I thought "were dead", thought we would be coacking on Ash... I was scared but my two mates didn't show too much fear. Probably because they has just stopped to smoke a joint! I don't smoke... It took about 40 minutes to get them just to the top car park, useless bastards 😂 The carpark was empty enough and there was a bus heading down the mountain. I nearly cried tears of joy to jump on it then some guy says "staff only" I told him to fuck off and we ended up sadly back down at the railway station. I had an old railway house at the foot of the mountain. Didn't sleep well that night!... Oh yeah I remember steam puffing out early in the morning on the day and rang up to ask if it could blow and I was laughed at and told it was "only letting off steam".

@br4ktz828

2 жыл бұрын

@@missk1942 I’m a snowboard instructor at tūroa and always have a fear of it blowing while I’m talking a class ahah that’s must have been terrifying!

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

@@missk1942 I really enjoyed reading of your adventure! Great story telling! I was stranded on the Desert Rd (hitchhiking) when the 1996 eruption occurred. You sure feel ALIVE after escaping it 😂👍

I have a picture of me near the crater when I was about 4 years old near the top of Mount Ruapehu in 1996, probably around the same time you guys were here, so awesome.

@zaynevanday142

2 жыл бұрын

I was there that day on exercise with the NZ Army saw the whole thing from the back of an M113 APC

I've skied here once or twice in the past and climbed to the summit once. My parents live about a four hour drive from here. I think this was the eruption that caused an ash fall which my Mum sent to me in the mail to Japan.

@gxblox1504

4 жыл бұрын

I skied to

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

🤗 That's so cool that your mum mailed you some ash.

@jamyndear3382

2 жыл бұрын

My mum mailed me some hash

incredible... the clouds look like expanding foam...what a sight! I hope we don't have any eruptions this year, 2016.

Scientist: Get a Helleecopter up he now Helleecopter arrives Scientist: Stares at it

@justthebeginning1448

4 жыл бұрын

😂🤣

@KaiserStormTracking

2 жыл бұрын

They have to wait for the pilot to give them the clear to board or they can be blown away or killed by the thing

my mum and dad were in the last eruption, lucky they evacuated everyone (mostly) everyone safely.

I remember it well Geoff i got caught out up the mountain during one eruptive phase...covered me with ash and damn near choked me! I also remember shooting from the chopper at 10,000ft and the cloud being higher still! Jonesy

This brings back memories! I was on a skiing holiday with my family on Mt Ruapehu when this happened. The little town, Oakune, at the base of the volcano got covered in ash.

Very scary situation for those climbers. And a very brave helo pilot. Thumbs up to him!

@sixthsenseamelia4695

Жыл бұрын

Brave? Ummmm no. Crazy. 😂

@huzizach

Жыл бұрын

even stuck around for a scenic tour

New Zealand is awesome. From the dairy products and wool, all they way to the fern forests and cone volcanoes. Miss it.

"Get us a chopper up here right now" "What did he say?" "He said no your fucked"

@user7966

2 жыл бұрын

legit standing right next to it lol

I have always been interested in volcanoes. They just really fascinate me but I probably wouldn't have the courage to go near one. This is amazing

Holy ****!!! I would have either been ecstatic or completely paralyzed from terror. Maybe both. Looking straight into the mouth of creation.

I remember parking some distance away from the mountain in 1995 or 1996 and the car got covered in about a quarter inch of volcanic ash. Visually it felt murky and a little surreal. Went up to Crater Lake a couple of days ago and it was just gently steaming; it is an eye opener to see those guys in the video near Crater Lake when it was erupting.

@Missunlimitedabundace

Жыл бұрын

Ash made it to Hawkes bay i remember drawing a smiley face on the cars on my way to school

I was on the mountain on September 23rd 1995 when it blew up, amazing to watch :)

@rogergotstoned3291

4 жыл бұрын

I was in Waiouru living in the field in 1995 when Ruapehu erupted .All training stopped,Waiouru was evacuated of non essential personnel.I stayed in Waiouru and got to watch nature in action. Spectacular to say the least.

@missk1942

4 жыл бұрын

It was a bit of a panic trying to get foam the mountain.

I remember being at School in Rotorua. With my yoghurt. Ash started falling from the sky. Everything looked grey and apocalyptic. The yoghurt didn't make it unfortunately 😅

this is amazing i was up on the summit 3 days ago and the old crator was absolutly huge it was too icy to climb to the crator lake, but i will definatly go back one day soon. seeing this video really puts into perepective how active this volcano is

Amazing video, Geoff! Volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows are two other acts of nature I find just as fascinating as weather.

WOW, awesooooome! I'd love to see something like this live, given the fact that I probably never will, this is definitely the next best. Amazingly awe inspiring footage. Thank you for treating the world to your spectacular video ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spectacular footage! Those eruptions are indeed scary.

Wow, great footage. The rooster plumes are awesome. Makes you respect nature. Added a bit of frisson to our summit climb last year, knowing what this frequently erupting volcano is capable of!

That was more than 10yrs ago. I lived 3hrs away from it and my car was ashed

The size of that first eruption was about the size of a large building. What an amazing sight...

Most satisfying video in the world.

Awesome footage, thanks for sharing.

It’s BEAUTIFUL!!! 💜

This is some beautiful and rare close up footage of one of natures most destructive and powerful events. Not that I would truly want to have been in your shoes when filming, but I truly am glad you where there to film it at such a vantage point. Thanks for sharing the video with the world.

@uapnz0698

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up

Just pray that the taupo caldera doesnt erupt otherwise we're all dead lol

@WayToManyAssassins

5 жыл бұрын

When it erupted last apparently it turned a 1/3 of the worlds sky red for years...

@RAAKAUUDUDE

5 жыл бұрын

They could see it in Rome and china

@pauldolan5335

4 жыл бұрын

Nah won't happen in our life time.I think Yellow stone will happen 1st again after 600 thousand years earth will b faarcked for many many year ICE AGE

@ryancrawford9608

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, "lol"

@MarsFKA

4 жыл бұрын

@Beware Of false prophets Thanks for the thought. By the way, how are your bush fires going? Got enough water to put them out?

In nature documentaries here in Italy, I know not how many times I have seen this piece of video; finally know who he is. E 'stupendo!

Quite eerie watching this with birds singing beautifully in the background

@lunairies

4 жыл бұрын

They ain’t singing they be screaming to all the other birds FLYYYYY AWEYYYY

I was there when it blew, most amazing thing I've ever seen

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

Omgosh! Same! Totally mind blowing - one of the most spectacular things I've ever witnessed!

@zaynevanday142

2 жыл бұрын

Same here with the NZ Army from the back of an M113 APC

Very amazing. Very scary too. Thanks for sharing. God bless you all

How could you guys wait until then to evacuate?!!! Insane but thanks for your courage we got to see this.

Thats amazing footage geoffmackley. I love that

My ruapehu is my most fav place to go i love skiing yhere so much

Drove on Desert Rd week after this happened, the road was still covered in ash & soot but still driveable! Scarey but pretty awesome 😊

awesome footage Geoff

Dammit, Saruman!! Let Frodo pass!!

@nenadfilipovic865

7 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@hey1519

4 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOJSKSHSKSJS

I remember being up the mountain and turning around to see this explosion. I saw it before I heard it. My house was at the foot of the Mountain on Railway Road opposite the train station. So we have these guy to thank for not shutting the mountain? I rang that morning to ask if it was safe and got laughed at and told it was only "letting off steam" well they were wrong! And we didn't have access to a come get me like these guys and was helicopter! I was stuck up there with 2 learner snowboarders ! Chairlifts were well closed. I never heard any warning siren some say went off, first indication something was up was when I saw it errupt . Most people has gone by the time we were down so we jumped on a bus to be told it was for "staff only" by one dude! People ignored him and we got down, went straight into the Chalet and has a large brandy... Then I had to sleep my house as the Ash fell...

AWESOME FOOTAGE!

thanks you, thank you, thank you, thanks you...can't thank you enough!

This is freaky. Wonder if it is going to happen again: it is crazy to think that others before the big eruptions may have felt as "this has never happened, chances are it'll all blow over like everything does" as I do right now :P Exciting stuff. Awesome video, one of the best I've seen so far, I think. Interesting the way the ash explodes.

what a sound. i can't see but boy it still sounds fantastic.

Brilliant footage.

same here for us in tauranga, i was only about 11 for the first eruption.

thanks geoff

Est impressionnant!effrayant! Et pourtant quelle beauté! Merci

I was up Ruapehu in 96 I think it was,we were skiing,lucky it blew at around 4pm

Waouhhhh ! . . . . Spectacular +++

I was up that mountain just over a week ago Snowboarding :D

When was this filmed?

I used to live like 30 mins away and remeber this happing when I was in primary school

That was a brave and bad ass chopper pilot

Gosh i was just a kid when this happened, remember it clearly tho. My family and i live about 3hours north of Ruapehu and our slide had a layer of ash on it, along with everything else in the area lol.

Your last sentence is very wise and very true. Doesn't even matter what humanity does. Like a good song says: "Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky"

Awesome vid👍🇳🇿

Stunning.

@nonab23 stupid question I guess, but I have to ask.. did the eruption kill him?

Had been skiing the day before, snow was sooooo soft, felt there was something not quite right. Glad I had work the next day as had been toying to stay an extra day to ski. Glad I didn't.

That's amazing power!!!

@SceneArtisan

8 жыл бұрын

+Ilham Julian Nature's power will always exceed that of our own.

thanks :D

¡Hermoso!

Jesus. After seeing the eruption at the beginning and then seeing you stood right next to it about to go off, I actually felt sick. You're fucking crazy. I like it.

my left ear really enjoyed that

Its getting active again. Level 2 at the moment out of 5. It might erupt soon.

@racheljennings8548

5 жыл бұрын

Saw that last night thought ohhh he's not happy

@michellejane9092

4 жыл бұрын

January 2020 still aint played up yet!

@Keedz

3 жыл бұрын

@@michellejane9092 this comment didn’t age well...

@RioGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Keedz lmao

Maravilloso todo ese material volcánico revolviendose.

That's spectacular :)

I remember seeing this on the news as a kid.

Round 2. May 2022

Rather spectacular! I did the Tongariro northern circuit, and saw these huge lava bombs; get hit by one of them and you wouldn't have any chance, in fact you'd be squashed flat. I note the Helicopter was linked with NZ railways, is this kept as one of the precautions following the Tangiwe disaster?

3:52 just amazingly beautiful to watch

boah -wunderschöner film eines naturereignisses!

It almost sound the Phreatomagmatic - Surtseyan eruption because there is snow, so the snow will sublimate into water vaper due to the eruption.

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

👍Yes. Mt Ruapehu has a crater lake.

AHHHHHHH I sky on that... I will never see my sky mountin the same.

Fantastic

Ruapheu is Level 1 again right now

@alpacalord3428

5 жыл бұрын

Yup still is

@dcampbell4585

4 жыл бұрын

@@alpacalord3428 still is now

@alpacalord3428

4 жыл бұрын

@@dcampbell4585 yup and white island is at level 2

@dcampbell4585

4 жыл бұрын

@@alpacalord3428 white island erupted last week, possibly just winding down now or possibly going to have a bigger eruption only time will tell

**about to be enveloped a volcanic ash** "what a beauty, this is fantastic!"

Well,no.It takes quite some time to build up this pressure.It was a VEI of 3,and that is still very small.

In the mid 90’s I boarded on that. I’ll chalk that one up as a win

wut year wuz this in?????????????????????

Ok. I had no idea it had erupted about 3 more times since the one i saw. Damn. Imagine how safe youd feel driving up and over tongariro while thats going off... not

Geez Louise! Glad they got that helicopter in there quickly.

lets watch a volcanic eruption,i think we might be a little too close should ring a helicopter.

In the Land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring to control others. One ring to rule them all

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