A distant and mysterious land - Kamchatka. The land is, moreover, virgin, still little explored and still hardly explored by man. It is not surprising that there are many mysterious things here, including those that are dangerous to human life.
Deadly Lake Fumarole
There are many volcanoes in Kamchatka, the landscapes around which literally fascinate with their kind of piercing beauty. Lake Fumarolnoe at the foot of the Uzon volcano, which looks more like a huge bowl of hot water floating in cool air, is no exception in this regard.
Indeed, even on the surface of this unique reservoir, the temperature of the liquid is about 50 degrees Celsius, and in the depths the water simply boils. This is the hottest lake in Russia.
The name of the reservoir "Fumarolnoe" can be translated as a source of hot gases, but it would be more correct to say - a source of poisonous gases, since the haze over this lake is not just a harmless steam from hot water, but various gas formations that are fatal to all living things. For this reason, there is not even a path to Lake Fumarolnoe - neither tourists, nor hunters with fishermen, rare visitors to the mysterious reservoir - scientists who study not only the lake itself, but also the influence of the Uzon volcano on it.
The reservoir is relatively large, about 600 meters long and 300 meters wide, and its depth reaches 25 meters. In addition, it is so beautiful that it is difficult to take your eyes off, but it is better to admire this lake in photographs or videos, without approaching this natural "trap" - it is deadly!
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Death valley
Who does not know the famous Valley of Geysers of Kamchatka (see the video about it below), it was in this place, fantastic in its beauty and contrast, that the wonderful film "Sannikov Land" was filmed in Soviet times. However, few people have heard that not far from this life-affirming valley is another - the Valley of Death.
The most interesting thing is that until the mid-seventies of the last century, no one even knew about this terrible place. Firstly, Kamchatka is huge and little-studied until now, and the Valley of Death is not that big - about 2 kilometers long and half a kilometer wide. In 1975, a forester V. Kalyaev and a volcanologist V. Leonov accidentally got into this dangerous canyon, studying the Kronotsky nature reserve of this region. It almost cost them their lives. In subsequent years, many expeditions of scientists came here, trying to understand that in this valley it kills animals and birds, including humans, if he turns out to be so careless that he does not leave the lost place as soon as possible.
At first glance, everything seems simple - all living things here are killed by volcanic gases, like carbon monoxide. However, why do animals and birds in the canyon die almost instantly? Then scientists suggested that these gases may contain, say, cyanogen chlorine, similar in its action to cyanide poisons. But this theory is bursting at the seams, since the concentration of cyanogen chloride in this case should be very high, cause tearing, but this is not observed. Moreover, cyanide poisons kill all living things, including bacteria, animals and birds poisoned in the Valley of Death do not turn into mummies, but calmly decompose …
The Valley of Death still remains an unsolved mystery of a distant and fantastic land - Kamchatka. However, there are many other mysteries here, this is like a snuffbox of an old and kind wizard, in which real fabulous wonders are collected …
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