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Iceland has a hiking trail over warm volcanic ash

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Hiking over newly birthed earth is a violently surreal geographical privilege. Iceland’s notorious Fimmvörðuháls pass takes intrepid trekkers straight through the scorched, alien terrain forged by the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, where obsidian-black ash dunes and jagged basalt formations literally still radiate residual geothermal heat.

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