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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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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 ...

a small effort given the reward on offer at Nicaragua’s top tourist attraction: volcano boarding. The active Cerro Negro is just 728 meters (2,400 feet) high, but sliding down its ash-covered slopes ...