- Maurice Krafft: I've seen so many beautiful things. I feel like I'm over 100 years old, with what I've experienced. So frankly, I go without fear.
- Katia Conrad Krafft: I like it when he walks in front of me. Since he is twice my weight, I know that wherever he goes, I can also go. I follow him because if he's going to die, I'd rather be with him.
- Maurice Krafft: One of the two volcanologists killed on Mount St. Helens was a long-time friend named David Johnston. He was 10 kilometers north of the volcano. He bore the brunt of the blast. He just had time to say on his radio, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" And we never found the poor man. He was completely swept away by the blast. And why was he in such a dangerous place? Well, we expected the blast to go to the north of the volcano, but we thought it would go no further than 7 or 8 kilometers. In fact, it went up to 30.
- Maurice Krafft: Before every volcanic eruption, the volcano gets the shivers, like a sick person. The Earth shakes due to the rising magma. It also swells, like an abscess is forming. The slopes get steeper, the craters grow bigger. And the breath of the volcano changes too. It turns foul. The composition of the volcanic gases change, and it's temperature rises, as though it had a fever.
- Maurice Krafft: I want to float down a molten lava flow. Katia doesn't want to. She said that she'd take my last photo as I set off.
- Katia Conrad Krafft: In the 18th and 19th centuries, there were big disasters with many victims, often due to a lack of information. But how is this possible in the 20th century when everyone knew?
- Katia Conrad Krafft: In Armero, those terrible mudslides came down and killed 25,000 people. We could have avoided it if we taught people to evacuate. Technical reports don't mean a thing to people who don't know about volcanoes. So we thought we'd make film programs instead. If we show a government images of the victims, the damage, the dangers, they might believe us, we might convince them.
- Self - Narrator: The camera shakes as if it's telegraphing whether to stay or run. Perhaps it is because their colleague, Juergen Kienle is about to pull them away from the burning ash cloud at the last second.
- Self - Narrator: Near the site of the surge, the marks on the Earth indicated that Katia and Maurice were next to each other. Two items were recovered, a camera and a watch, its hands forever frozen in time at 4:18 pm. Just over the East China Sea, Mount Pinatubo trembles. In one week, it will explode in the most spectacular volcanic eruption the Philippines has ever known. 58,000 people will evacuate. Officials took the warning signs seriously thanks to Katia and Maurice's film about understanding volcanoes.
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