A Vision - Rick Wakeman/Fraser Thorneycroft-Smith/Phil Williams/Simon Hanson/David Snell/London Symphony Orchestra/English Chamber Choir/Guy Protheroe/Patrick Stewart, Rick Wakeman, David Snell

On the 24th of May 1863, Professor Lindenbrook and his nephew Axel discovered

an old parchment within

a 12th century volume entitled «Heims Kringa», itself a chronicle of the

Norwegian Princes who had ruled over

Iceland.

Written in runic manuscript by Arne Saknussemm (an alchemist of the 16th

century) it translated:

…"Descent into the crater of Sneffels Yokul, over which the shadow of

Scataris falls before the kalends of

July, bold traveller, and you will reach the center of the earth."

Two centuries forward from this discovery, three geologian explorers traversed

land and sea before they

reached the mass of volcanic tufa known as Iceland.

Veiled in secrecy,

their purpose: — to emulate the journey

that had been taken by their forefathers two hundred years previous.

For fear of beeing followed, their identities were known to no-one,

and for this reason, as they began their

ascent through vast fields of ice toward the magnificent snowy nightcap of the

Sneffels volcano, their

expectations became inexplicably interwined with those of unease,

as they prepared to challenge timeless

history.

On reaching the tabletop summit, they slowly descended onto the crater of

Sneffels Yokul …

… And so began: -«The Return To The Centre Of The Earth».