Volcano Popocatepetl erupted yesterday

While we were celebrating on roof top yesterday night, our eyes started itching and soon the floor, sofas, tables… everything was covered in volcanic ash. Volcano Popocatepetl erupted with tremendous amount of ash.This was quite a unique incident for all of us.

I realized seeing pics in the morning that the eruption was actually very huge. Here is the news coverage translated in English and the pic taken at the dawn yesterday

8 hours of eruption at the volcano

by Volker

Top of La Malinche

A short post just a bit to mess up the chronology in the blog :)  - On Saturday Louis and myself made it to the top of La Malinche after several km's of walking up to the volcano. It got more and more steeper and we ended up with rock climbing to the very top.

Some pictures and a short video below about the atmosphere in appr. 4460m altitude.

http://youtu.be/8afXqvTJy0E

Posted by Peter

Cinco de mayo parade

Thanks to Paula, we got to go to the roof top of the hotel and have a perfect view of the parade. Otherwise only Louis, Peter and Flavio could have seen it.

Also it was cool to see all the 066 emergency services in the parade (such as ambulances, mountain rescue, urban rescue, fire department). Security team works very closely for past three weeks.

I posted some pictures from my camera here
http://aguila042013.blogspot.mx/2013/05/cinco-de-mayo-parade.html

I am sure Volker and Krishna have more and better pics.

Posted by Sanket

8 hours long hike (Volcano La Malinche)

We had a 8 hours long trek to Volcano La Malinche climbing through volcanic ashes. Team executed stress test on themselves and tried to reach point of their maximum limits.  And also a team pic at the beginning point of the trek.

Below is the picture of the volcano,after completing about 50% of the trek through the forest.. I tried to plot the approximate heights achieved by team members

Although it seems we reached quite close to each other before quitting, each of those points on the top are around 30 to 45 minutes away from each other and about 45 degree slope

This evening special indian dinner all together :-)

By Morgana

Security subteam - finalizing the final presentation

By Morgana