Russia Klyuchevskaya Sopka is the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula , and is the highest volcano in Asia. Its steep, symmetrical cone towers just sixty miles from the Bering Sea. Klyuchevskaya's first recorded eruption was in 1697, and it has been almost continuously active ever since, as have many of its neighboring volcanoes. Klyuchevskaya last erupted in 1995. Following the first ascent in 1788, no other ascents were recorded until 1931, when several climbers were killed by flying lava as they descended.
Similar dangers exist today, and few ascents are made.
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