Lava’s in the air
Maurice and Katia Krafft’s marriage was always on shaky ground. Sometimes not so much shaky, as wobbly, red hot and liquid. The French field volcanologists became stars at home and abroad during the 1970s and 1980s for their filmed exploits as they captured racing lava flows or massive dancing-fountain eruptions or peered over crater rims.
They were geology’s answer to Jacques Cousteau, becoming international volcano chasers, packing their silver heat suits and flying off to observe volcanic activity and sample its chemistry wherever it was happening
