The crater is located near the village of Darvaza. While known as the Gates of Hell, many also call it the Darvaza gas crater. Others refer it to the Door to Hell, and the government has taken to ...

ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years ...

Turkmenistan president pleads for external help to extinguish 'Gates of Hell' gas crater President ... in the country. The crater, which has burned near the village of Darvaza in the massive ...

At the bottom of the crater, the walls and ground were vibrant orange—very much like hell. Kourounis didn’t risk his life for fun. He and National Geographic traveled to the Darvaza Gas Crater ...