Lost on a lava field, trudging along for days on an ever-growing expanse,

mocked by the choppy chuckle of helicopter blades that fly tourists overhead.

They're not looking for you, a gray speck on a chalkboard, searching for the road you came in on, searching for

signs then searching for water and finding nothing as easy as it should be.

Maybe a torch would attract some attention, but the lava flows are too hot to close in on.

How frustrating to be in hell and not even able to achieve fire. Welcome to Marooned.

Harrowing tales of the catastrophically lost.

I'm Jack Luna. This is Aaron Hable.

Gilbert Dewey Gatke III is a 41-year-old recently divorced businessman and father of two,

who's feeling a little lost this summer of 2005, so he's planned

a solo vacation to Hawaii's big island for a week of exploring, perspective, and self-discovery.

Dewey flies from his home in Austin, Texas, to Hawaii, picks up his rental car, and checks in to the

Kalani-onua retreat, a hotel located just outside the National Park.

The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has long been a popular adventure tourism destination going back to the 1840s.

The park encompasses two of the world's most active volcanoes, Kilauea and Manaloa.

The park is a major conservatory agency, a World Heritage Site, and is designated in International Biosphere Reserve. The park covers over 300,000 acres, and it's a popular destination for hiking and camping, welcoming over a million guests per year. The vast lava fields provide dramatic landscapes with

sharp rocks, craggy fissures, and active vents spewing steam and concentrated carbon dioxide gas

into the air. The mountainous volcanoes loom overhead and active vents spill lava into the Pacific

Ocean. The site is akin to looking out over the

landscape of a barren alien planet churning fire and lava out into a steaming sea.

Dewey has been told by friends that the best time to check out the lava flows is at night,

when the glow of the lava can be seen clearly. During the day, the view of the lava

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