It is Concepción that worries me. It is the active volcano I had committed to scaling. Volcán Concepción towers 5,280 feet up from Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake. (The lake is ...

MASAYA, Nicaragua -- Facing intense heat, poisonous gases and molten lava, daredevil Nik Wallenda pulled off a history-making 1,800-foot highwire walk across an active volcano live on television ...

"There are many volcanoes here in Central America, but only volcano boarding here in Nicaragua, in Leon." Although active, Cerro Negro does not spit out smoke - its last major eruption was in 1999.

So this is the hill I die on. Before me stands Cerro Negro, an active volcano in Nicaragua I’m meant to climb — to a peak of 2,400 feet — before plunging down its outer rim at a spine ...

Nicaragua's Masaya Volcano is one of the world’s most active volcanoes In the countdown to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, “Good Morning America” and our partner National Geographic ...

a 2,388-foot-high active volcano that’s one of a string of some 25 volcanoes that traverse Nicaragua. Some of Nicaragua’s jungle-covered volcanoes are majestic and verdant. A few send off ...

Jack is International Security and Terrorism Correspondent for Newsweek. A week before I reach Nicaragua's second-largest city, Len, the pioneer of this burgeoning extreme sport that is volcano ...

It remains distinctly active. Dig into the cinders a bit with a shoe, and one feels heat. The volcano had particular significance for me. Near the end of a years-long posting in Nicaragua in the ...