Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov wants to extinguish the flames of the “Gates of Hell” – a gas crater that has been on fire for decades.

The pit has been burning for over 40 years. Flickr user NMK Photography Though Turkmenistan's president ordered the pit be filled in 2010, hundreds of tourists still flock to the site. Flickr user ...

An enormous fire has been raging in Turkmenistan for more than 50 years and nobody has been able to tame it - yet. Known as the 'Gateway to Hell', the Darvaza Gas Crater is a massive gas well that ...

Turkmenistan’s leader has ordered that a mysterious fire crater nicknamed the ‘Gates of Hell’ be extinguished after burning for decades. Turkmenistan’s dictator president Gurbanguly ...

The hole in Derweze, Turkmenistan, was created in 1971 when a drilling rig used by Soviet geologists collapsed. The team decided to burn off poisonous gases inside the crater but the fire, which ...

DERWEZE, TURKMENISTAN - NOVEMBER 24: The "Door to Hell" (also known as the Gate to Hell, the Crater of Fire, Darvaza Crater) is a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan, that collapsed into an ...

The hole has been burning methane for decades, ... In 2022, The Former President of Turkmenistan ordered the fire to be extinguished. That pretty plainly didn't happen.

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand flames ...

Turkmenistan’s Darvaza Gas Crater – often referred to as the ‘Gates of Hell’ – is famed for the ethane-fueled flames that escape from its vents. But some say the fires aren’t burning ...

DERWEZE, TURKMENISTAN - NOVEMBER 24: The "Door to Hell" (also known as the Gate to Hell, the Crater of Fire, Darvaza Crater) is a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan, that collapsed into an ...

Turkmenistan’s leader has ordered that a mysterious fire crater nicknamed the ‘Gates of Hell’ be extinguished after burning for decades. Turkmenistan’s dictator president Gurbanguly ...