The 30-year-old man, whose name was not released, was on the Byron Ledge Trail when he wandered off the marked path and fell over a steep cliff last Wednesday, the National Park Service wrote in a post on Facebook.

A Boston-area man fell off a cliff while trying to get an up-close view of the Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii.

A man from Boston is lucky to be alive after nearly plummeting to his death, all in an attempt to get better footage of a volcano's eruption at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. According to multiple reports,