Tambora: The Eruption. The Cold. The Year Without Summer.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The July When Snow Fell Free1:41 Snow falls on New England in July 1816, opening a planetary mystery whose answer lies at a volcano thousands of miles away.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Largest Explosion Ever Recorded Locked1:39 After three years of unrest, Tambora enters a five-day escalation toward an explosion of almost unimaginable scale.
3. 03 Episode 3: The Villages the Fire Cloud Erased Locked1:44 Pyroclastic flows race down Tambora, converting record-breaking eruption statistics into a human catastrophe.
4. 04 Episode 4: The Eruption That Made a Tsunami Locked1:29 Tambora turns fire into water as pyroclastic flows trigger tsunamis and the mountain collapses into a vast caldera.
5. 05 Episode 5: The 60-Megaton Cloud That Dimmed the Sun Locked1:45 Tambora’s sulfur escapes the island, spreads through the atmosphere and transforms a local eruption into a global climate shock.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Summer That Froze the Fields Locked1:41 New England farmers endure snow, repeated frost and crop destruction during a summer colder than living memory.
7. 07 Episode 7: The Rioters Who Cried “Bread or Blood” Locked1:43 Failed European harvests drive food prices upward until hunger spills into the streets with weapons and a chilling ultimatum.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Famine That Killed After the Ash Locked1:37 Disease, delayed monsoons and prolonged food shortages reveal that Tambora’s largest death toll came long after the eruption ended.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Volcano Linked to the Bicycle Locked1:33 Tambora’s disruption reaches everyday transportation, creating an unexpected link between volcanic winter and the bicycle.
10. 10 Episode 10: The Summer That Created Frankenstein Locked1:50 Cold rain traps Mary Shelley and Lord Byron indoors, where Tambora’s darkened weather enters literary history.
11. 11 Episode 11: The Lake Inside the Missing Mountain Locked1:32 Modern scientists enter Tambora’s transformed summit, where water, fumaroles and renewed unrest reveal a volcano that is damaged but alive.
12. 12 Episode 12: The Village Buried Ten Feet Deep Locked2:05 The discovery of a preserved settlement and two victims restores human faces to Tambora’s destruction and completes the volcano’s global story.