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