PLANET EARTH Mountains
Human beings venture into the highest parts of our planet at their peril(in danger). Some might think that by climbing a great mountain they have somehow conquered it, but we can only be visitors here.
This is a frozen alien world. This is the other extreme - one of the lowest hottest places on Earth. It's over a hundred meters below the level of the sea. But here a mountain is in gestation(gestation 本身可以表示孕育的意思,这里意译为山脉的生长通常来说,因为河流等侵蚀作用,山脉不会无限生长). Pools of sulphuric acid(硫酸) are indications that deep underground there are titanic(从泰坦尼克一次演变而来,表示巨大的) stirrings.
This is the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia(埃塞俄比亚的达纳基尔洼地), lying within a colossal(巨大的) rent of the earth's surface where giant land masses are pulling away from one another. Lava(拉瓦河) rises to the surface through this crack in the crust(地壳的裂缝) creating a chain of young volcanoes.