it s kind of our fix. it s what gives us our excitement, our adrenalin for the day. reporter: this lava junky has gone swimming with it, catching fiery ways in the kilauea eruption. those who get too close, too extreme. my group is friends is the far outer limits of that range. reporter: i wouldn t recommend pushing it far for everybody. some are still pushing it. if you caught our live report monday for cnn this morning you might notice this person, head lamp on, returning from a trek from lava s edge. you know, you can live caged up and have a pretty boring life or you can go see for yourself and take the chance. reporter: curtis and sherry hiked five hours over unstable lava rock out to the edge of the
these pictures of kilauea. my group of friends is definitely the far outer limits of the range. i wouldn t recommend pushing that far for everybody. if you caught our life report for cnn this morning , you might have noticed this person, headlamp on, returning from a trek from the lava s edge. officials have warned about getting that close. not to mention it s trespassing. you can live caged up or you can go see for yourself. reporter: perhaps rookie lava junkies hiked over unstable lava rock. they recorded this 50 yards from the crawling lava. then there were those going to the source of the lava, the expert lava junkies, if you will.
it gives us adrenaline for the day. this lava junkie has gone swimming with it, catching these waves in 2018 kilauea eruption. is there a range of lava junkie, those that get too close and too extreme? my group of friends is watching it. you might have noticed this person. head lamp on, returning from a trek to the lava s ng. officials warned folks of the dangers of getting that close to the flow. not to mention, it s trespassing. you can live caged up and have a boring life. or you can see for yourself and take the chance. curtis and sherry, perhaps rookies. hiked five hours on unstable lava rock out to the flow. they recorded this video about 50 yards from the withdrawing
the dangers getting that close to the flow, not to mention it s trespassing. you can live caged up and live a boring live or you can go and take a chance. reporter: they hiked five hours on unstable lava rock out to the edge of the flow. they recorded this video about 50 yards from the crawling lava. then there were those going to the source of the lava, the expert lava junkies, if you will, usgs scientists in protective gear collecting samples of the lava and bringing them here. so we put them in the drying oven. reporter: the university of hawaii is helping run the rapid response lab for the eruption. we got a look inside. these samples collected since the lava started spewing. it was thrown up in the air and landed and they scooped it up while it was still molten and quenched it. if you look at it, you ll see
which is where my house is at, that way, on the opposite side of the subdivision. reporter: you can see a metal street light fused into the rock. four years after kilaeua did this to her community, she still walks it as show he s on her old street with her old neighbors. when you have something like this, you re all dispersed after that. yeah, we lost that sense of community is what we lost in addition to the homes. reporter: mauna loa s eruption, an emotional trigger for dorothy and others, forcing the trauma from kilaeua back to the surface. the 2018 lava flow knocked out 600 homes here, some untouched, but left lava locked, on island within the island. tracking over lava rock, helping friends gather the last of their belongings from their home. the reminders of devastation here, hard to miss. this was a home. they evacuated the second night.