According to a statement from the agency, the man, whose identity has not been released, ventured off-trail in an attempt to ...

Neal is a graduate of Boston University. A Boston man hoping to get an up-close view of the Kilauea eruption at Hawaii ...

A tree ultimately broke his fall, saving the man from an additional, potentially fatal, 100-foot fall to the caldera floor ...

Miraculously, the man suffered only minor facial injuries. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is a popular tourist destination.

Image via Shutterstock Mistakes were certainly made, to say the least. A tourist ended up taking a stumble off a steep cliff ...

Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, was erupting with lava fountains over 1,000 feet high at the time of the accident.