Out of a Perfectly Good Helicopter and Into an Active Volcano

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Valery Rozov’s jump from a helicopter into a bubbling, simmering and somewhat active volcano in Kamchatka might very well have earned him a posthumous Darwin award for his troubles. Instead the 44-year-old got the ride of his life as he glided gracefully, with the aid of a wingsuit, below the rim of of the 2322-meter Mutnovsky Volcano.

The Russian daredevil encountered strong wind turbulence on his descent, which complicated landing on a slab of ice in the center of the crater. He was then quickly pulled out to avoid overexposure to the poisonous gases all around him.

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by C. S. Magor - Apr 22, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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