Lightning Dazzles Onlookers Watching the Eruption of Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala

[cachukis]

2. I climbed Acatenango headed for Fuego

when we were enveloped by thunderhead firing lightning bolts all around. I had an aluminum rack for my pack.
Took it off and buried it in ash and then dug a hollow to keep low and covered myself with a rain Pancho.
The storm persisted and we were buried in 8 inches of snow/hail.
Got pictures of the Fuego rim covered in snow looking down on a bubbling cauldron.
The trip down was Romancing the Stone in spades.
The melting snow turned into rivulets and we sloshed our way to the bottom.
This was 1978.
Years later, one of my managers hired a fellow from Antigua and I told him my story.
You are one of the gringos who survived that storm. We still talk about it. No one had ever seen or heard about snow on that mountain and we became legends.