Volcano Day in Kamchatka was celebrated with heat to Avachinsky volcano

23.08.2016 16:29:49 (GMT+12)

Volcano Day in Kamchatka was celebrated with heat to Avachinsky volcano
Volcano Day in Kamchatka was celebrated with rapid heat to an active Avachinsky volcano of 2 751 m height. New ascent record is 1 hour and 23 minutes. It was set up by Kamchatkan sportsman Konstantin Ignatiev.

The leader among women is seventeen years old sportswoman Ekaterina Osichkina. It took her 1 hour and 37 minutes to ascent, which also set a new record.

Sportsmen started at the height of 950 m. The level difference was about 2 km, that is over ten thousand steps upwards. There were about one thousand participants of mass ascending to Avachinsky volcano. Most of them had to turn back because of overrated their straight and bad weather. It was raining and winding strongly at the level of over 2 km.

Volcano Day holiday was for the seventh time in Kamchatka.

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