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19. Papa Holua, Hawaiian Lava Sledding
When most people think about sports in Hawaii, they think about surfing. However, ancient Hawaiians also used their mountains for fun, too. Papa Holua means “slide into the pit”. This was a game where they used a wooden sled to slide or surf down the side of a volcano.
Obviously, you can’t slide down a volcano with active molten lava. But it’s still very dangerous, which is why the game was eventually banned. Today, there has been a modern resurgence of people constructing sleds to slide down a volcano once again. This looks a lot like sledding down a snowy hill, except that there is molten lava nearby.