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Tourist stranded near crater of active volcano with rescuers unable to save him
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mirror.co.ukA tourist is stuck close to the crater of the highest active volcano in Eurasia with rescuers unable to reach him by foot or helicopter.
The 35-year-old man is stranded some 650ft below the rim of giant 15,580ft Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.
Spewing volcanic activity and a melting high-altitude glacier is preventing rescuers getting close to the tourist. A helicopter bid to lower rescuers onto the rim of the volcano so they could climb down to the man had to be aborted due to extreme toxic gas and vapour emissions and atrocious weather.
The tourist was spotted from the air, say reports. A video shows how a separate attempt to climb up to the hiker - whose family name is Tsvetkov, from Vladivostok - failed due to
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