Volcano boarding

Riders hike up the volcano and slide down, sitting or standing, on a thin plywood or metal board.

Potential dangers include falling and getting cut by the rough volcanic ash, breathing poisonous gasses, contracting histoplasmosis (otherwise known as "caver's disease"),[3] or being hit by flying molten lava.

[4] Sandboarding, a similar activity performed on sand dunes, was established in the 1970s and 1980s: Derek Bredenkamp and others boarded Swakopmund in Namibia around 1974; Jack Smith and Gary Fluitt popularized it in California in the early 1980s.

National Geographic Channel adventurer and journalist Zoltan Istvan credits himself with inventing the volcano boarding sport on Mount Yasur on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu in 2002, though Istvan first visited the active volcano in 1995.

[5][6][7] He filmed his adventure, and it later aired on the National Geographic Channel in a five-minute news segment.