Bungee Jumping: Leap Of Faith – For some reason, something gets excited in the human brain that makes us jump from a platform high in the sky with just a bungee cord to save us. When you really think about it, it’s crazy. But we still do it and we do it all over the world.

The history of bungee jumping goes back hundreds of years when it was known as ‘land diving’ in the small island nation of Vanuatu. Legend has it that a woman on Vanuatu’s Pentecost Island was unhappy with her husband and ran away from him into the jungle. The husband followed his wife into the forest and eventually started chasing her, in response to which she climbed a large tree. Then the husband followed her and climbed the tree and the woman tied some vines around her ankles and jumped from the tree. Her husband … Read the rest

Ice Climbing: Scaling Frozen Cascades – The drive to my home town takes me past the Mt Iron embankment on one side of the road and the maze on the other, with the “Leaning Tower of Wanaka”. I ski the hill and as always scan the mountains for signs of life. For a moment, before the east face of the Black Peak disappears behind trees, I see what I consider life: ice. On this day, when the air is stunned by winter, it slides in bright white lines down the bare slopes. Even though they are 30 kilometers apart, I know these lines are frozen waterfalls. A mixture of fear and a desire to climb the petrified cataract seeps into the car for the rest of the journey.

My friend Dave Vass shares my feeling for the ice. After a gentlemen’s breakfast at a lakeside cafe, he and I board … Read the rest

Exploring Lost Cities: Archaeological Adventures – A “were-jaguar” figure, perhaps representing a combination of a human and a spirit animal, is part of an unburied ceremonial seat, or metate, one of the many artefacts found in making the ruins deep in the Honduran jungle.

In search of the legendary “City of the Monkey Gods,” explorers find untouched ruins of a lost culture.

Exploring Lost Cities: Archaeological Adventures

Adventures in Honduras have emerged from the jungle in a thrilling story of the discovery of a mysterious lost, unexplored city. The group is led to the countryside, which is uninhabited by a long-standing rumor that it is the location of the legendary “White City,” also known in ancient history as “The City of the Monkey God.”

Step Aside, Indiana Jones: Natgeo’s ‘lost Cities Revealed’ Stars San Diego’s Albert Lin

Archaeologists have explored and documented many plazas, earthworks, ruins, and clay pyramids from … Read the rest