KAMCHATKA, Russia — Six people have died climbing the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in Russia’s far east and six more are believed to be stranded on Sunday after freezing winds halted a rescue attempt.

STORY: The group of 12, which included two guides, set off to climb the 15,597 foot volcano on Tuesday (August 30) but ran into difficulty after one tourist fell to their death at an altitude of ...

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The number of people who died in an accident while climbing Eurasia's tallest active volcano has risen to eight, Russian authorities said Monday. A helicopter with a rescue team was on the way to the ...

Five people climbing Eurasia's tallest active volcano have died in an accident and rescuers are trying to extract two other injured climbers, Russian news reports said Saturday. The climbers were ...

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Unlike heat or cold or wind or fatigue, which had all made themselves unpleasantly known in raw physical ways, gravity was more insidious, creeping inside my bones, my brain and deep in my belly.