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Mount Elbrus
Mountain and volcano · Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
THE STORY
Europe's highest mountain, a dormant volcano
Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Russia and Europe and the highest peak of the Caucasus. It is a dormant stratovolcano rising 5,642 m, the highest volcano in Eurasia and the tenth-most prominent peak in the world, and stands in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Source: Wikipedia ↗Last erupted about AD 50, first climbed in 1829
Elbrus formed more than 2.5 million years ago and, according to the Global Volcanism Program, last erupted about AD 50. Its lower east summit was first climbed in 1829 by Khillar Khashirov, a guide to an Imperial Russian army expedition, and the higher west summit in 1874 by a British party led by F. Crauford Grove.
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