Камчатка на карте России расположена в northeastern part of the country. From the east it is washed by the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, from the west by the Sea of Okhotsk. The nature of Kamchatka is amazing and beautiful. Tourists love to visit these places.
But on the peninsula there are quite dangerousterritory. This is the Death Valley, where birds, animals and people die in almost a minute. Surprisingly in it, surprisingly, only microorganisms. Scientists have long been exploring this phenomenon, but have not yet found an explanation for it.
The story of the Valley of Death begins long ago. It was created not by man, but by nature. Some call it the Land of Paradoxes. It is located next to the Valley of Geysers - a favorite tourist destination.
On the existence of the Death Valley for a long time no onedid not know. Although once a research expedition, heading for the volcano Uzon, settled down to rest almost 300 meters away. But she didn’t pay attention to the Valley of Death.
Death Valley is located in the Kronotsky Reserve, which has an active volcano Kikhpinych. The Geysernaya River flows along its western slope. Death Valley is on the other side of the volcano. It occupies a small area - only 500 m wide and 2 km long.
Kamchatka on the map is located in the north-east of Eurasia. The peninsula has its own unique attractions. For example, the Valley of Geysers. The nature of Kamchatka impresses with its majestic beauty.
One of its unique places is Death Valley.This is a very picturesque place. On the western side of the volcano there are a number of natural terraces. Above them, steam from hot springs nearby is constantly rising.
The valley is deadly for all living things.As soon as the sun begins to warm, small animals descend into the valley. But they die quickly. Behind them come the large predators who eat carcasses of small animals. But they die, even moving away from the death spot.
Death Valley in Kamchatka stubbornly keeps itsthe secret. Scientists have found nearly 200 corpses of animals and birds. Among them are bears, hares, lynxes, crows, wolverines, eagles and foxes. Animals and birds are much more sensitive than humans. Their sense of smell is so developed that they feel the anomalous zones in advance and bypass them.
Тогда возникает вопрос:“Why animals and birds, despite the danger, still entered the valley and did not leave it at the first alarming signals of the body?” Despite all the horrors that the valley carries, many tourists come to see it.
Death Valley in Kamchatka was discovered onlyin 1930 by Kalyaev (forester) and Leonov (volcanologist). Local residents later told that, hunting, they lost several dogs. They began to look for. And when they found, the animals were already dead. Death came, on the assumption of hunters, from a sudden cessation of breathing. Nearby were many more corpses of birds and other animals.
Some of them were completely gnawed, andpart has already decomposed. Suddenly, the hunters became ill, and in a panic they hurried to leave this place. According to their stories, everyone felt a metallic taste and dryness in the mouth. Weakness spread through my body, my head began to spin and a chill appeared. After the hunters left the valley, all the unpleasant feelings passed in a few hours.
In the Death Valley, not onlyanimals. Since it became known about her, many scientific expeditions have tried to investigate it. But some scientists from them have not returned home. For 80 years, according to estimates of employees of the reserve, killed more than 100 people.
Even large animals die in Death Valleysuch as bears, lynx, etc. Some of them were simply poisoned by the meat of dead animals, which they tasted in the valley. And they died already outside the death zone. At autopsy, scientists discovered multiple internal hemorrhages in all.
Death Valley in Kamchatka attracted many scientists.In her study, they first believed that the death of animals and people is due to the high concentration of gases that fill this place. They contain life-threatening compounds that can cause poisoning. And the symptoms were really similar to those that were observed when animals were dissected.
Only such harmful compounds are active.slow. Therefore, the animals that left the valley would survive. Moreover, these volcanic substances can not be so toxic as to poison the meat so much that after eating it, the bears died a few hours later.
Полуостров не только привлекает красотой своих places, but not tired to surprise scientists. The active volcano Kikhpinych is located on the Eastern ridge of the Kamchatka Mountains. On one of its sides a valley was discovered, in which all animals and birds die. It is also deadly for humans.
Chemical analyzes were performed in Death Valleyof air. It detected the deadly cyanide. It is the most poisonous and fast-acting gas. If it enters the body, it blocks breathing, and a person or an animal can die in a matter of seconds.
At the same time, cyanide can accumulate inthe body. And so poison the meat that the animal, having tried it, dies very quickly. Only there are a few but. The concentration of cyanide should be very high in meat. But for this, it would take so much of it in the air that everyone who just entered the valley would die on the spot, not having time to go further.
There is a second but that indicates that cyanidecan not be the cause of such a high mortality rate. Even in small quantities, this gas causes severe tearing. But many travelers and scientists who visited the valley and returned back, were in it without gas masks. And no tearing did not suffer.
Third but - cyanide kills all living things, right up tomicroorganisms. And in the valley there are gnawed corpses. And many have decayed. And this is the activity of bacteria that need oxygen. Otherwise the corpses would just dry out. So, the Death Valley in Kamchatka is still not deadly for everyone. And it turns out that the concentration of poisonous gas is not so high as to cause lethal outcomes if microorganisms do not die.
The valley of death is still an inexplicable phenomenon.Scientists after the first research began to take it much more seriously. They work on its territory only in gas masks. They live nearby, but at a safe distance.
Volunteers constantly come, who clean it from the corpses of small animals, so that large predators do not enter the deadly territory. As a result, people were able to save the lives of many beasts.
