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In the Heart of Karakoum Since 1971 Burns a 70-Metre Crater that No One Has Ever Been Able to Extinguish
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Darwaz crater in Turkmenistan has been burning for more than 50 years. Why it is called the “Door to Hell” and whether the flame is really starting to go out ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1).
There are places that defy all logic, and the one we are going to talk about today is clearly part of it. Imagine an incandescent gulf, planted in the middle of a desert in Central Asia, which has continued to spit out its flames for decades without ever weakening long-term. No engineer, no government, no technology has managed to come [...]
In 1971, Soviet engineers set fire to a collapsed gas crater in the Turkmen desert expecting it to burn itself out within weeks, and more than 50 years later the 230-foot pit is still burning day and night — locals now call it the Door to Hell
A Cold War miscalculation turned a Turkmen desert sinkhole into an eternal inferno that has mesmerized and haunted the region for half a century.
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