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and shoals of fish. brown bears behave as though they own the land. this is kamchatka located in the northeastern russia. one of the world's most unique and unusual nature reserves as funny as. the renowned valley of guises is hidden in the mountains on the east coast of kamchatka. in the canyon among the chaos of shia cliffs and ravines life is bubbling under literally boiling. this place is difficult to reach the are no roads flying provides the only feasible means of transport. this route is difficult for
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pilots but fascinating for passengers. helicopters fly along the eastern volcanic ballast. the volcano is one of the most active ones it's crater constantly throws up hot gas and ash. its interruption is beautiful but gingers on one occasion its pilots decided to fly up closer to the wilkins creatures and over for a little while to a tourist's seed eruption but the airship and guinness turned out to be so hot that the coffee at school last melted immediately while the paint on the fuselage got scorched it's this the valley of guises lies between two active volcanoes. the area has deep underground thermal energy sources place earthquakes. rockslides and landslides happen very old. heat rises to the surface
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forming intricate shapes three hundred fifty. excursion path runs along the central part of the valley of. this geologically small area has the largest guises numerous boiling springs mudholes rising steam and in the world. i think if we choose. the place rather than. park in taiwan we do have but it's small. mots. but this one. little is known about the formation of the valley of
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geysers vulcanologist believe it to be about two thousand years old which they calculated using the speed of its growth. every five years it expands by one point two millimeters. the. springs and guises consist mostly of opal. geyser right is formed from boiling minerals which sometimes emerge along with the rules of. the tourist path is away from the guises to protect people from hot water and steam during an eruption. plain grass conceals the most dangerous spots in the valley. liquid mix of clay water and sulphur. to keep tourists safe it's very hot here underground. if they step on the soil and end up getting
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thermal and chemical burns which can take a long time to heal. beds are the only ones who can intuitively find a safe way among the boiling springs and mud holes. they have no fear of the guises mountain river. beds are the true keepers of the carnacki nature reserve. and. they never come across poaches so they kindly let inspectors use their paths to go around the area. but as always take the most efficient and simplest routes. see how far these marks or. person hundred ninety centimeters tall. have been using this more. confrontations they bite into the tree trying to reach as high as possible to show their height this way other beers
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. conflicts when the. during salmon spawning the shores of lake have the highest density of beds in the world. unexpected encounters between man and bear on avoidable. where you go. they may look slow clumsy and heavy but it doesn't stop beds from being dextrous and strong they can cover fifteen metres in just two or three strides. dimitri has an experienced nature reserve inspector. he comes across bad several times a day and is now accustomed to that behavior. someone. had a very memorable encounter with a female beer she looked at. she was fooled.
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they were about between. tenderness and hunger and her jaw was literally dripping with. i scared her away with my rifle i've never seen such a looking to be in my life. lead to a junction of small brooks. salmon make their way through to get to the lake. not surprisingly it's not only a favorite feeding place for baz but also a great space for everyone else to film these amazing beasts. are not afraid of people. for centuries the locals never went hunting for baz and never attacked them. the bear is one of the smartest and strongest predators and keep growing throughout their entire lives. they learn quickly at any age and have
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a good long term memory. in spite of their weak eyesight bez find their way around easily they sense fish and see them. cubs usually live with their mother for three years during this time she breast feeds them and so rarely she has had fish. but she's the only one who can teach her young to fish for themselves. later they will practice and improve their skills throughout their lives.
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she's tracking. on her hind legs she gets a good view of where and how to fish she's so cute. there's live according to a strict routine. they hibernate for half a year during winter in spring and early summer they mate and then spend the rest of that time looking for food. beds are completely omnivorous. this female stays in the volcano caldera with her cubs even during the salmon season. bears live in the area permanently they don't go fishing. this female bear is eating grass now for the later her food will
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be supplemented with berries employing it's already if you get the last one you can very healthy and nutritious the best just as they offer people but for now they only have girls to eat than those. whose own count there is located at the carnacki nature reserve in the central part of can chant. about three hundred thousand years ago a street kilometer told conics tronto volcano rose in place of his own. it collapsed as a result of several larger options and. the ground beneath sank and formed a cow there at. its cliffs a four hundred meters tall on average and its diameter is more than twelve kilometers.
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use on plateau is flat but colorful. how to volcanic gases called fumaroles and sulfur taras transformed the surface. while the known chemical elements with unmixed in thermal springs mudholes miniature volcanoes and hot rivers and lakes which filled with strange bacteria and l.b. . for these basic life forms this strange well of boiling water and poisonous substances is a perfect environment for. the clay crusts on the thermal grounds cover cavities filled with boiling clay. baz of the only ones who can find their way around the. footprints of the masters of the corrupt nature reserve can be found in various unexpected places. was it was some green grass on pez near the boiling groups and the jersey grows it's too to hot. barefoot bears can do it at the same time the
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water. bears like going to the zone caldera in spring for mating in summer they mostly go to mountain rivers to fish for salmon. but the most attractive fishing spots for baz life far away from here on lake shores. lake creole is located south of the camp chant camp and inshallah. in the northeast the volcano stands close to the shore. it rises into the cold humid air streams from the sea of a hot sky thick fog often comes as the possibly of the volcano the passage through it provides the only means of reaching the lake by helicopter going by land or water is impossible. roughly five hundred people manage to visit lake correll
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during the year. tradin oil island office several houses for tourists and the employees of the crew nature reserve. people from all over the world come here with a single purpose in mind to see brown beds in the wild. and. that. the why bears are very large. when they standing up in the river. it's impressive and most of all they are very quick. and
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very very. quick and that's very much. bands don't like it when somebody else goes into the water when they a fishing distance is the most important thing for baz. you need to strictly keep that distance if you want to avoid a sudden outburst of aggression. and don't get any closer than fifty meters. this thing in the middle that there's a bear was approaching and inside i can coax a rifle to shoot the beast away usually that helps with that the butt of the bag keeps moving the back to can lead to flare and throw it under the animal's feet and as i did this will give several seconds to think about what to do next and whether these are only applied in extreme conditions it's a very supposing a direct threat to human life the fact that it's not over with his business related
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. the close up team has been to the region where the biggest russian salmon caviar processing factories located nouns are g. goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. new ways are being found to fight economic turmoil. and russia's first free
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election. thousand years ago. welcome to the region. russia close up. in some of the weather in the value of guises changes instantaneously missed fills the canyon it fades into the vapors of the hot springs and compass them with a haze. several years ago a massive landslide came down the valley when the same thick mist covered the area . even today the distinct borders of the slide can be clearly seen in the canyon. the powerful moving just centimeters away from a house and a helicopter pad. it is interesting that the mud slides. twenty metres in the house an employee who was staying was saved.
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could have raised the entire tourist area. the mudslide blocked the giza near a river and the water level to rise very quickly. lake that was created by a natural dam flooded many famous guises. it drastically changed the face of the valley but didn't destroyed completely gradually the river washed away the land slide down. the top of. guys a which used to be completely. reappeared and is erupting once again. is seldom visit the valley at this time of year that's why the reserve stuff can easily go ahead with their research. and.
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down to the bottom of the canyon several times a day. the river which is the valleys water runs through it. of that to measure the depth and speed of the river. the outlands to be able to breathe easier in their requiring this place to extend the tourist plus there used to be bridges here before but they have been swept away several times if we want to know where the best places to build a bridge this time so that the water doesn't wash it away once again. unlike most rivers in the camp. the has no fish or is unsuitable for drinking. fountains that erupt from under the earth and flow into the river springs and waterfalls a full of poisonous acidic and alkaline compounds. the purity and the beauty of this mountain river. and deceptive but it's just one of
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a kind. in summer most rivers in kamchatka abound in shoals of fish their numbers are recorded by the kamchatka research institute of fisheries and oceanography located near the river estuary and the nature reserve. is the only river that flows out of lake and carries its waters to the sea of a whole. wild salmon from the pacific ocean swim up via to their spawning grounds. how can they find the way to the report from the sea. and divide it in the most widespread point of view is that the fish orion's itself by magnetic fields and currents eve how does the fish recognise its native. is it let's just call it a sense of smell what the taste of the river. the fish
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recording station has one single task that is to count the salmon heading for their spawning grounds the scientists method is simple the river is blocked by a dam as soon as a shoal of fish approaches it they pass through special enclosures where they are counted. the margin of error it's ten percent. as a rule three people work here but none stay for a long period at any one time because of the dangerous proximity to the bears. however biologist you catarina is an exception she and her husband have spent their whole lives on the banks of lake. and. my children have grown up at the station and my husband aleksei and i brought our daughter with us when she was almost two years old and a son when he was eighteen months old it's like permanently living on the frontline
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you're over still watching. a wild beast is a wild beast a bear will never become civilized where nothing more than tempting food for it to hear your words. baz take up position around the clock near the fish stations damn they wait patiently for the mass surge of fish to commence. in some a bad as live side by side with humans on the shore that's why mass tours of forbidden in this part of lake. a standard unsafe tourist route of the crown not skin nature reserve lies between the valley of guises and the zone volcano caldera. the most important thing is to not be afraid of flying by helicopter. even professional pilots four hundred horns to fly here if they're not from can charge come first while it is difficult to worry
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and. uneven ground not to mention the weather it's foggy and windy and there can be. in some of the weather in the volcano caldera is usually warm. the formation of its own microclimate is one of the surprises and inexplicable features of his own. in two thousand and eight a geyser sprang up in one of the thermal fields. it's found in shot up to six metres high. fields but. field because it is a lie just. the middle is heated by a hot underground pocket of magma and is where the main thermal zone is with its
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hundreds of hot springs lakes and steam vents. this. shaped by hot gas and steam. brings. good for tourists. for. at sunset after the working day the reserves to live in the use on caldera allow themselves the luxury of bathing in banja lake. it's an unusual. filled with water temperature around forty degrees celsius that's about one hundred four degrees fahrenheit.
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you can see. the water in the spring. is the only way. we call it. despite. rivers and lakes it's impossible to bathe in them in the summer because it's very cold. maybe volcanic in origin but the water temperature doesn't rise above five celsius that's just for. the beds feel comfortable in it and patiently hunt the salmon until. late in the evening the reserves workers gather on the pier to discuss and show off the results of that bad photo safari. the most difficult thing is not to snap
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a beer but to show the photo. of the. exclusive. fish. his photos have never been published anyway. dmitri prefers showing them to his colleagues and to the baz. promise to show you the. come on don't be afraid. of pictures the whole morning. all right. come on my beauty over it and it is the female of the air is nice and decent too if she keeps least like us and us that we said we're under her she's the boss here we are much lower in rank was it worth of the gone beauty go on and don't be late next time you go it is if we make it at
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twelve blues be here at twelve bear cubs came to us the last time we were sitting here it's a deal that they sniffed around us and went away when last usually. the valley of guises and the count there of the eurozone vocal of the three gems of the cult nature reserve. experience travel advice coming here once you've already seen much of the world because off to kamchatka everything else on the planet is going to look somewhat doll in comparison.
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all of us not to all poor americans so far from god and so close to the downed empire the yankee empire that has hurt our confidence so badly others didn't miss the opportunity to slam the us but reassured russia of his brotherly love on the first day of his diplomatic visit to moscow. pandora's box open women in u.s. politics are accused of playing dirty swaying both the motional tactics where they lack professionalism. and russia's formula for success hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics simply isn't enough for the black sea resort of sochi know it's racing ahead to work i'm surprised this month to school.
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for a good morning for me kevin owen here in moscow is one am here now you're watching the r.t.e. news channel and our top story russia and venezuela are two countries set on shaking up the system so that the global balance of power is more evenly spread. to moscow to nail down cooperation which is so important for the south american republic to strengthen its standing. been following the first leg of the president's diplomatic. moscow means well i never seem to run out of things to talk about and this time around we also have plenty to discuss on the agenda but first and foremost of course there is no person and there's a sphere our russian as well the house up a joint venture there's also of course military cooperation with moscow telling tanks to modify their jets to miss whether there's also the issue to be discussed off their roofs open is one thing.

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