article_snippet: Three days before the category five cyclone hit
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks travelled south to Tanna Island in the hopes 45–year-old Andrew Brooks could climb the active Yasur volcano.
article_snippet: The thrill seeker got more than 45–year-old Andrew Brooks bargained for as the category five cyclone hit in the early hours of the morning killing 16 people across the devastated island nation and demolishing almost everything in the devastated island nation path.
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks, along with 60 villagers and a score of tourists, sought refuge in a concrete school building and waited for the howling wind to stop.
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks sat huddled with the villagers for four or five hours while the category five cyclone tore through, destroying the grass huts that made up the village.
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks told The Advertiser the wind was incredibly loud, almost like a ‘freight train or jet plane.
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks waited for aid with around 60 villagers at the foot of Yasur volcano after Cyclone Pam hit .
article_snippet: After the winds stopped 45–year-old Andrew Brooks soon realised 45–year-old Andrew Brooks was stranded and spent the next five days cut off from civilisation at the foot of  Yasur volcano.
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks was in the southern region of Vanuatu when Cyclone Pam hit .
article_snippet: 45–year-old Andrew Brooks reported that villagers were having to hike 4 kilometers up mountains to get fresh water.
highlights_snippet: Andrew Brooks, 45, was holidaying in Vanuatu when Cyclone Pam hit .
  