The door to hell, aka the Darvaza Crater is a pit of flames in the middle of the Karakum
Desert in Terkmenistan.
Despite the country's best efforts to keep the tourists away, a drone just captured amazing
footage of this firey pit and we're going to talk about it, right now on IO.
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150 miles away from the capital of Turkmenistan, there lies a fiery flame pit appropriately
nick-named the door to hell.
Its burned consistently for almost 50 years.
In case you're wondering, satan is not causing the fiery Darvaza crater to burn.
But it's also not natural either.
The crater is thought to be man-made.
Its believed that the door to hell opened due to an engineering accident in 1971 after
a Soviet Mining ring collapsed.
According to the daily mail, back in the 70's when the soviet union was still a thing, the
russians heavily drilled the desert looking for natural gas.
Turkmenistan is the fourth richest country in the world for natural gas reserves.
Some miscalculations later, machinery and engineers ended up falling through the ground.
Gas began pouring into the atmosphere, which made it impossible for people in the surrounding
villages to live there.
The solution?
The best option was to light up the gas and wait for the gas field to dry up.
Which never ended up happening because the door to hell is still burning almost 50 years
later.
Well thats awkward.
Enter the age of social media, when people want to flock to the door to hell to capture
pictures and footage of it.
Hundreds of tourists visit the site every year.
That being said, you cant literally go inside the crater without specialized equipment,
unless dying in a fiery pit of hell is your jam.
The pit burns at a temperature that can reach 1000 degrees celcius or 1830 degrees farenheit.
But one drone operator and photographer flew his drone right into the mouth of the pit
and captured some amazing aerial footage of it.
The photographers name is Alessandro Belgiojoso, and he put the footage up on his instagram
page.
Btw editors make sure you credit the photographer.
Now we cant actually show the video because its owned by TNT creative media, but if you
check out Allesandro's instagram page, It really is quite remarkable.
did you know, johnny, that someone has actually gone inside the door to hell on foot and lived
to talk abotu it?
No I didn't Charlotte but this video is pretty short as it stands right now so why dont you
tell us about it.
Gladly.
In 2013 a group led by world famous canadian explorer George Kourounis, decended down into
the door to hell crater and walked across the surface.
He managed to stay inside the crater for an entire 15 minutes because he wore a heat refletive
suit, and was equipped with a breathing apparatus and custom made harness.
While he was down there, he didn't find any demons or gargoyles, but he did find bacteria
that was able to survive ont he fiery rocks.
The more you know.
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