MANLIO COSIMO DE PASQUALE
The Hard Climbing (Kawah Ijen - Indonesia)

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of composite volcanoes in the East Java, Indonesia; in the crater of this active volcano there is a famous sulfur mine and here, for about 40 years, about 400 miners are lowered into toxic fumes and extract the element from the sheets of the volcanic walls.
They carry about 70 kilograms of sulfur for several km between toxic fumes and very hard climbs.
All for around 6/7 dollars a day.
This is the price with which the sulfur, once extracted, is bought by Indonesian cosmetic companies.

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