June 29, 2021 Fire in the mountain: Erta Ale is an angry gash belching out living fire and sulphurous fumes - SUNIL RAJAGOPAL Fire in the mountain: Erta Ale is an angry gash belching out living fire and sulphurous fumes - SUNIL RAJAGOPAL× A journey into the remote Afar triangle of Ethiopia, a junction of three continental plates, takes you to the smoking mountain that still simmers with magma and a fascinating history * We are in the remote Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, the land of beginnings * This dramatic landscape is pockmarked with moody volcanoes, endless salt flats, scalding deserts and smoking, psychedelic sulphur lakes