At least three tour companies operate volcano-boarding trips to Cerro Negro from Leon, the onetime colonial capital of Nicaragua and the closest city. The first person to come up with the idea of ...

When Cerro Negro—Nicaragua’s youngest volcano—last ... In 2004, this unique pairing of terrains sparked an outlandish idea: volcano boarding. “This is the only place in the world where ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diamond in the rough “Volcano-surfing” isn’t what most Americans associate with Nicaragua. Instead, what lingers are images of poverty and civil war, and of the left-wing Sandinistas ...

At 728 metres tall, Cerro Negro is one of Nicaragua’s most active volcanoes ... “It's the only place in the world where you can go boarding on an active volcano,” says Lesther Centeno ...

We married and left Nicaragua, and here I was, half a generation removed, back this time with our younger daughter, age 14. At least three tour companies operate volcano-boarding trips to Cerro ...

Nicaragua has volcanoes in every kind of ... and Quetzaltrekkers (leon.quetzaltrekkers.org) offer volcano boarding. A volcano boarding half-day excursion to Cerro Negro volcano typically costs ...

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