A fountain of molten fire tears skyward against a bruised twilight sky — this vivid chrome-era card captures the raw fury of Hekla's May 1970 eruption, one of Iceland's most dramatic volcanic events of the twentieth century, as the Skjólkvíar crater vent hurls incandescent lava streamers dozens of metres into the air while a column of dark ash billows overhead and the surrounding lava field glows ember-red in every direction. Hekla, long feared by medieval Europeans as the "Gateway to Hell," last erupted in 2000, but the 1970 event — which began on 5 May and lasted more than two months — captured global attention and spawned a cottage industry of souvenir postcards sold to the adventurous tourists who made the trek across the black lava desert to witness the spectacle first-hand.