I love the reporter’s question at 0:50: “Your feet are burning, what is going through your mind?” 
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I was going to post the clip from the 1997 film, “Volcano”, but it is really unpleasant, so I’ll spare you that.
I’m not really stupid just really daring.
Because now that I know this can physically be done if I am ever in a chance to try this… I probably will.
Stupid implies I would not be aware of the potential consequences- it’s fucking lava. I mean this all in a rhetorical sense because you specifically did not say anything to me but I mean, speaking to myself, it’s fucking lava. I imagine it’s not much different than molten iron which I have been around plenty, just hotter.
I keep complaining to my local iron casting crew- I want to light my cigar off a molten pour, and they just won’t let me. I already do it off of my blacksmithing. Why? because I can 
I can explain why the lava behaves this way when so,done is du,b enough to step foot on it.
The flow is spreading by a process called inflation. Gas-poor basalt lava quickly forms a thin, flexible skin which is pumped up by yet more molten lava. When the unseen idiot puts his foot on the lava, he pushes the liquid out from under the boot, when he releases the pressure it flows back.
The skin is only slightly flexible, eventually, it will tear and another lobe of lava will pour through the break, cool, form a skin and resume inflating.
In short - don’t taunt the volcano.
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HOT!!!
Who’s afraid of HOT???
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Or 1997’s “Dante’s Peak”. But no close damage from lava. A grandmother does leap in a lake to get their boat to shore when the motor dies, and suffers terminally from the too hot water.
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Isn’t that water both “too hot” and “too low pH”, or was that another moment of extreme peril?
I suspect that shows the heat transfer properties of lava (and air) quite nicely. Stepping on lava is probably quite different from stepping in lava.
This is why firewalkers use wood embers and not, i.e. copper sheeting.
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Wouldn’t worry about it. It’s a lava, not a fighter.
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I thought Pierce Brosnan did that (and lived.)
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DOLOMITE!
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Yeah, well, Pierce Brosnan is hotter than lava.
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FTFY
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I just bumped into the film on tv, a minute before that scene.
The water is acidic, the boat was at risk of falling apart, and the grandmother got into the water to tow the boat after they lost the motor’s propeller (I assume the acid caused it to fall off).
I think the first time I saw the film, when it came out, I saw steam on the water and assumed it was hot water, and then tuned out other details in the film. They say nothing about boiling water, but do talk.about the water being acidic.
In a later scene Pierce ruins a good set of tires by driving over lava, but it was either that or be stuck.
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