Word: lukyanova
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...piled out, doing calisthenics to keep warm, while the truck roared and slid around the frozen lava. That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries. While we hauled water from a freezing stream, our cook, Elena Lukyanova, served up meat stew, brown bread, cheese, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and chocolates--one of many feasts...
...more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 100 ft. into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 6-sq.-mi. geothermal field where we bathed in a warm sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Lukyanova, a regular visitor, warned, "Don't stay in too long--the radon gas is not good for your heart." Oops...
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