A hiker sits at the edge of Gorely volcano, with a view of Avachinsky volcano in the distance, on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, Aug. 24, 2019. Famous for its exceptional flora and fauna and farther east than Japan, the peninsula does not resemble anyplace else in Russia, and for many Russians represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)