The amusing history of Bungee Jumping
Curated from: medium.com
Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:
5 ideas
·1.51K reads
3
Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
Bungee Jumping: The Legend
An extreme form of sport that is relatively safe, bungee jumping has a brief, surprising history.
It has its roots in Pentecost Island in the Southern Pacific region. The old legend had a female victim of marital abuse jumping off a large tree with her feet tied to the vines, escaping the fall. The abusive husband who jumped after her died after hitting the ground.
33
726 reads
Naghol: Land Diving
The legend of Pentecost gave birth to the ritual of naghol, or land diving, where men jump off a wooden tower to pray for a bountiful yam harvest, and to prove their manhood.
The world got to know about this in a BBC Documentary in 1950.
18
230 reads
Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club
Bungee Jumping was a stunt carried by David Kirke, the first bungee jumper, who jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol along with two other friends who were all members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.
Even after being arrested and fined, they repeated the stunt on various other bridges, cranes and hot air balloons, making bungee jumping famous.
20
213 reads
Bungee Jumping In The 80s
New Zealander AJ Hackett, the first mainstream bungee jumper, was jumping off bridges and even the Eiffel Tower in 1986, later opening the first commercial bungee jumping site in New Zealand, and is responsible for making this extreme sport popular across the world.
18
158 reads
Bungee Jumping In Rishikesh
Captain Rahul Nigam introduced serious bungee jumping in Rishikesh, India, where he set up ‘Jumpin Heights’ a site where participants jumped 83 meters into the holy river Ganga.
He enlisted top experts from New Zealand to ensure safety.
18
185 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
Claudia Stark's ideas are part of this journey:
Learn more about history with this collection
How to make good decisions
How to manage work stress
How to manage email effectively
Related collections
Similar ideas
1 idea
4 things bungee jumping can teach you about life
eightyeightagency.com
4 ideas
4 ideas
The Birth of Parkour
newyorker.com
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates