Eight climbers have died while ascending the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in far east Russia, Russian authorities said Monday. The accident occurred about 1,640 meters below the 15,884-foot summit ...

The climbers were trying to ascend to the top of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano, when the accident occurred about 500 meters below the 4,750-meter (15,884-foot) summit, the reports cited the ...

Klyuchevskaya Sopka - whose symmetrical cone towers high above the Kamchatka peninsula - is part of the natural Volcanoes of Kamchatka Unesco World Heritage site.

Klyuchevskaya Sopka’s first recorded eruption was in 1697. It is considered to be Russia’s most dangerous volcano, and in March 2020 it emitted ash clouds 20,000 ft into the air.