Has anyone jumped into a volcano?

Japan (naturally) has Mount Mihara, which is one of their more popular spots to off oneself. More than 2000 people have jumped into that crater. They eventually built a fence around it, but I cannot imagine that stops the really determined. But it looks pretty fierce. read more

Experienced snowmobiler John Slemp, 52, of Damascus, Ore., became the first person ever to fall into the crater formed when the volcano erupted in 1980. Last Saturday, Slemp, his son, Jared, and a family friend, Rob Mayes, took their snowmobiles up to the crater's rim, where they stopped to take in the view from a cornice -- an overhanging shelf of snow. read more

If you fall into a volcano, it’s magma that’s your problem. Most of us probably think of lava in the sense of lava flows, but you could also fall into a lava lake, which is lava that pools in a vent, crater or a depression on certain types of volcano. read more