雄偉高山 01歌詞
添加日期:2023-09-04 時長:01分07秒 歌手:英語聽力
Human beings venture into the highest parts of our planet at their peril.
Some might think that by climbing a great mountain they have somehow conquered it, but we can only be visitors here.
This is a frozen alien world. This is the other extreme - one of the lowest hottest places on earth.
It's over 100 metres below the level of the sea. But here a mountain is in gestation.
Pools of sulphuric acid are indications that deep underground there are titanic stirrings.
This is the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, lying within a colossal rent of the earth's surface where giant land masses are pulling away from one another.
Lava rises to the surface through this crack in the crust creating a chain of young volcanoes.