Picture it. After a grueling 45-minute to one-hour hike up Nicaragua’s youngest volcano, Cerro Negro, you get to reward yourself with the thrill of a lifetime: volcano boarding. Similar to the winter ...

Cerro Negro’s last major eruption was in 1999 (AFP via Getty Images) It took Ana Muller half an hour to trek to the peak of the Cerro Negro volcano, a small effort given the reward on offer at ...

A week before I reach Nicaragua's second-largest city, León, the pioneer of this burgeoning extreme sport that is volcano boarding, Zoltan Istvan, warns me in an email that the active Cerro Negro ...

It took Ana Muller half an hour to trek to the peak of the Cerro Negro volcano, a small effort given the reward on offer at Nicaragua's top tourist attraction: volcano boarding. The active Cerro Negro ...

LEON, Nicaragua — With a grin and quick pace, guide Rigo Sampson led a small group of hikers up a steep trail to the top of Cerro Negro, a stark 1,300-foot-tall volcano of black cinders, ...

CERRO NEGRO, Nicaragua — Peering down from atop the Cerro Negro volcano, it's easy to see how a daredevil on a bicycle earned a land speed record gliding down its cinder cone slope. The drop is a ...

Black howler monkeys grumbled in the soursop tree. Long-toed jacana and purple gallinules padded around the lilies. Herons and egrets squabbled in the frothing tideline on the lake’s edge. No ordinary ...

As your Icelandic friends can tell you, volcanoes are nothing to kid around with. They're big, they're filled with molten rock, and, from time to time, they like to show off for the outside world. But ...

It took Ana Muller half an hour to trek to the peak of the Cerro Negro volcano, a small effort given the reward at the tourist attraction. A tourist slides down the slopes of the Cerro Negro volcano, ...

With a grin and quick pace, guide Rigo Sampson led a small group of hikers up a steep trail to the top of Cerro Negro, a stark 1,300-foot-tall volcano of black cinders, sulphur-stained rock and ...