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PHOTOS: ‘Between Fire and Ice,’ the Incredible Volcanoes and Ice Caves of Kamchatka, Far East Russia

by Louise Chambers


At first glance, it may look like a computer-generated scenery from a fantasy film, but the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East is a living, breathing, erupting landscape as real as the day is long.

The 777-mile-long peninsula, spanning from the Pacific Ocean on its east coast to the Sea of Okhotsk on the west, is a magical land of conflicting landscapes. Red hot roaring volcanoes tower over labyrinthine ice caves, glistening lakes lay beneath vast starry skies, and the entire spectacle is a sight to behold.

Daniel Kordan is a landscape photographer based in Bali. He has visited Kamchatka multiple times to capture its beauty on camera. In a photo series of the region bathed in the rich colors of nature’s bounty, Kordan describes “beautiful Kamchatka” as “a land of pure wilderness and volcanoes.”…


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