Volcano victims left photos of last moments

I saw a picture of a guy who took the picture at the summit signpost. It was in this same article at yahoo us. I wonder if the family wanted that. RIP

The photos mentioned are here I believe http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/05/the-iphone-still-worked-like-a-miracle-hikers-final-moments-captured-in-haunting-photos/ And then there is the video which was mentioned before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ea3uED1Zgc

RIP to the victims.

I think as a guy too, it would be kind of cool to see something like that. Nobody expected or probably even knew what the smoke could have led too since there was no warning beforehand.

Heart wrenching. I also read this on Yahoo! the other day and saw some of the pics -- felt a little strange looking at them and like quercetum wondered about whether or not the pics should be up (at least the one with the guy in it just before he died), but I'm guessing that aside from the Tweets posted with pics by a friend who survived the families allowed the pictures to be put up.

DaDude: "Nobody expected or probably even knew what the smoke could have led too since there was no warning beforehand."

I don't know... I heard that one of the survivors who had been with a group eating lunch said he bolted when he thought things were going terribly wrong, but others, who ended up among the dead, stayed behind to quickly try and clean up their lunch trash. It could be the same with the last-minute pics in some cases.

So sad. My wife is always going off about "do not make fun of nature, nature will always win."

I wonder if anyone died because they tried to tweet a photo before evacuating. It's something I might be dumb enough to do.

I was standing on the lookout point on the side of Sakurajima ( Kyushu ) one time with my wife and son when the volcano decided to vent, fairly large plume of smoke ash and gas billowed out near the top, that was a bit scary as I didn't know if it was going to continue or not, regardless we high tailed it out of there, then were told that sakurajima does that all the time its normal.

But I wont be going near on or close to active volcanoes again anytime soon.

Sad sad story. My j-wife's parents are avid weekend hikers in the shizuoka ken area and we always are concerned if they are putting themselves in danger because they dont seem to get the idea that their hike isn't a trip to the grocery store. Typical Japanese naivete at its best? ?

For some reason, the fact that the photos survived the people makes me sadder than anything else.

HawkeyeOct. 06, 2014 - 04:12PM JST Sad sad story. My j-wife's parents are avid weekend hikers in the shizuoka ken area and we always are concerned if they are putting themselves in danger because they dont seem to get the idea that their hike isn't a trip to the grocery store. Typical Japanese naivete at its best? ?

There's probably a slightly larger chance of Mt Fuji erupting than getting hit by a tiny meteor. If you chose to live in this country, you're exposing yourself to earth quakes which are many times more likely to kill you than a volcano. People here seem to enjoy using the word naivity about the locals, but these people hiked on a very low activity volcano, if you're going to call them naive, you might as well call the 300 people bungee jumping from that bridge in Ibaraki today naive as well. I guess you will once there's a freak accident though.