Eruption Survivors Tell of Escape as Volcano Belched Rocks and Smoke

Volcanic ash covers the ground and trees after the Shiveluch volcano's eruption in Klyuchi village on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on April 11, 2023. Yury Demyanchuk/Russian Academy of Sciences' Volcanology Institute via AP

Adventure tourists Pyotr Kirinkin and Christina Kurochkina got more than they bargained for when the volcano they were going to see suddenly erupted.

The pair were with a group of volcano scientists on their way to view the Bezymianny volcano in Russia’s extreme east Kamchatka region when it blew up in their faces.