Question: If you fell in a volcanao what would you do?

James Hickey answered on 11 Nov 2013:

Hi tomjman. Interesting question. At the majority of the world’s volcanoes you can’t actually fall into them. There are only 4 volcanoes on Earth with real lava lakes that you could fall in (like when Gollum falls into Mt Doom in Lord of the Rings), but if you did fall in there’s not a lot you could do – you would die almost instantly!

When volcanoes are erupting they do open pathways into their interiors but you could never get close enough to fall in without being injured or killed first.