Nathalie Cabrol

And after that, we descended.

And it was all on adrenaline.

I can tell you what.

I had two of my crew with headaches.

Part of one of them was because of the altitude.

We climbed very fast.

The other one was because of the cloud.

She was the closest to the cloud when it happened.

So we descended fast.

That was close.

And it's interesting how the human body and mind works, because I know that from the moment my friend told me that the volcano seemed to be erupting, I was going on adrenaline.

But when we got close to them and I saw him, we were getting close to the cars, I saw him come in towards me and the slope, all of a sudden, all the adrenaline went away.

I was a mess.

I had to find the first rock and sit down.

It was gone.

There was nothing left of me.

I got in the car and I felt in the car as we were heading back towards a camp, I could have passed out.

I really fought back and I'm not the kind of passing out really, you know, easy, but there was nothing left.

I had no energy, no nothing.

It's fabulous how you react and how this is embedded in your brain from eons of evolution, of reaction to a dangerous situation, basically.