This is LifeKit from NPR.

We start in Hawaii just before sunrise on a Hawaiian volcano, Haleakala.

It's a volcano 2 million years old.

To get there you have to drive for hours in the dark.

Because the sun hasn't come up.

To the top of this volcano, to take a photo of the sunrise, which always looks really

amazing because it kind of comes up over these clouds.

Jenny O'Dell, an artist from California, trek there with her parents to catch this famous

sunrise.

But it wasn't so picture perfect.

It's really cold and windy up there.

Everyone's just shivering and waiting for the sun to come up and they were using their

selfie sticks to get their cameras over other people's cameras so that there wouldn't

be people in the photo.

And then as soon as the bottom of the sun was above the clouds, so it's no longer a

sunrise, everyone got back in their cars and drove down the volcano.

It's a national park.

You could look at other things there, but it was just like, you know, okay, no, I have

consumed this image now, so there is no longer a reason for me to be here and I will leave.

Surely we don't just travel to capture an image and leave, but it seems like that's

happening.

You can't open up a browser tab this summer without seeing stories about swarms of tourists

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