Russ falls into gully in Mayon danger zone

LEGAZPI CITY: Fifteen days after four European tou’rists lost their lives on the slopes of Mount Mayon, a Russian mountaineer braved breaching the volcano’s “permanent danger zone,” fell into and was stuck at a gully 1,700 meters above sea level. Both legs broken in the fall, he is now fighting for his life.

Mark Yuchagaev, 28, sneaked into the so-called “no man’s land” without securing a permit from Albay Public Safety Emergency Management Office.