The world famous death Valley is one of the most interesting and mysterious sights of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Located at the foot of the volcano kikhpinych, in the headwaters of the river hot spring, the valley is part of Kornikova reserve. The area is about 2 km in length, and a width of 100-300 m.

At first glance death Valley is quite scenic and safe place. Particularly attracted the attention of the Western slope of the volcano, down to the river and forming thereby a number of amazing terraces, over which swirls the steam from the hot springs.

Death valley – mysterious and dangerous place, which was known in 1930, when these places have lost a few hunting dogs. After some time the animals were found dead. Next to the bodies of the dogs, the hunters found a huge number of dead birds lying on the bare, without a single blade of grass land. Raises many questions and the fact that after visiting the Valley of death is the condition of hunters and survivors dogs inexplicably deteriorated.

After this case study of the valley have decided to do a local Forester reserve V. Kalyaev and volcanologist Leonov. They were the discoverers of the Valley in July 1975 With the time to learn more about Death Valley was visited by not one scientific and tourist expedition. Unfortunately, not all of them ended successfully.

Initially, scientists and researchers believed that people and animals died here because of the saturated vapors of volcanic gases air of the valley. However, these substances have rather slow action. Only in 1982, researchers found that in volcanic gases of the Valley are also highly toxic cyanide compounds. The cause of mass deaths of animals are these underground toxic gases accumulating in Death Valley. However, scientists still could not fully unravel the mysteries of this natural phenomenon of Kamchatka.