Surviving Galeras by Stan Williams and Fen Montaigne, Little, Brown,
£16.99, ISBN 0316855707
ON 14 January 1993, a party of volcanologists and local people left a
conference in Pasto, Colombia, to climb to the crater of the nearby Galeras
volcano. At about 1.40 pm, the volcano exploded. Nine people were killed, and of
those who survived many were badly injured. One of these was Stan Williams, a
professor of geology from Arizona State University in Phoenix. Surviving Galeras
is his account of the tragedy, written with journalist Fen Montaigne.
Williams suffered horrific injuries: a fractured skull, an almost completely
severed…
