This makes me rethink my hike up Mt. Etna ten years ago...
When I was in the USN, going through the Strait of Messina one night, it was overcast, and I could see the red glow of Mt. Etna reflecting red from the clouds as we transited...it was very cool...and weird.
I think we also had a guy jump overboard that night. Rumor had it he was trying to desert by swimming ashore. Never found him.
A group of us (sailors) went to the very top of Mt. Etna in the early seventies. The family and I were there also maybe 15-16 years ago but we could only get about half way up because of damage from eruptions. We walked the rims of several side craters...kinda of scary.
That area is like a lunar landscape...incredible though.