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.

Yesterday, two died during an unauthorized climb of 2,173m Vilyuchinsky volcano, in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. According to Russian media, three unregistered climbers were ascending the ...

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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 4. /TASS/. The death toll among those who tried to climb the Vilyuchinsky Volcano in Kamchatka has risen to two. A woman died during descent, the regional office of ...