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/ 17 October 2007

Philippines attempts to sell deadly volcanoes to tourists

Rickety old jeeps barrel through a dry northern Philippines riverbed, setting off a dust storm that coats the visitors bouncing around on the back seat. The landscape around Mount Pinatubo is evolving again 16 years after a gigantic volcanic eruption killed more than 1 500 people and sent a cloud of ash into the atmosphere cooling world temperatures for years.