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So we're just walking up Mount Vesuvius now, a thousand meters above sea level,

which infamously erupted in 79 AD, almost 2000 years ago, when it blew its top off,

and cast its entire area in a dark cloud of pumice, lava and ash.

And you can also see now, you can probably hear in the background.

We've got visitors, it's a very popular place to come up to Vesuvius today with good reason,

because there is so much history here, and we do have an eyewitness accounts of the eruption itself

by plenty of the younger in nearby my scene, and he describes what he saw.

He described the eruption as like being in a room with the lights turned out.

It would freeze in time, both Pompeii, Herculenium and other places nearby.

But standing here today, you can see the whole of Naples in front of me,

an overwhelming blue from where the sea and the sky meet.

Cascading rock formations in the distance, marking the outline of the city,

ginormous caverns that make up its rocky terrain with steep sharp drops.

The only thing stopping me from going over is this, a slim wooden railing marking a hub bumpy path along the side.

It's also, at times, when the people have gone, incredibly quiet.

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