Tolbachik Landing. Kamchatka

2 years ago
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This time my visit to Kamchatka has been rather special. I came here for a few days to explore the peninsula from up high. Along with the pilots @pilotmelnikov, @yanemeliano and @alex.tattoohin I have flown over entire Kamchatka and even reached the Northern Kuril islands on Cessna 172M airplane. 15 hours of flying, 2500 km of the overall distance. From up high the peninsula looks like a really pristine wildland with around 300 volcanoes, the most of which we were able to contemplate during our flying. We were flying over the most beautiful and significant of these volcanoes and taking photos of them. There's no way I can give a sense of flying several meters over the crater of Avachinsky volcano or nearby Kluchevskaya Sopka - the highest volcano of Eurasia. There's one feature which makes these flights really breathtaking: many of these volcanoes are located apart, it's not a mountain group with lots of peaks like Altay; these are stand-alone formations. They're very impressive in size, no photo can portray that.

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