LAHAR ZONE Trekkers navigate the desolate landscape surrounding Mt. Pinatubo in 1993, two years after its major eruption. —PHOTO COURTESY OF GUY HILBER
MABALACAT CITY—Thirty-five years after Mt. Pinatubo’s 1991 eruption buried towns, darkened skies and displaced hundreds of thousands across Central Luzon, survivors remember not only the destruction—but the solidarity that helped them endure one of the world’s most powerful volcanic eruptions of the 20th century.
As Pampanga marks the anniversary of the June 15, 1991 eruption, residents and officials reflected on a legacy defined not just by devastation, but by “bayanihan”—ordinary people helping one another through extraordinary crisis.
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