the traditional harvest ritual of “land diving” practiced in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. The precursor to the extreme sport of bungee jumping, nagol sees men climb ...

Vanuatu, also has another claim to fame. Its Pentecost Island is the home of a death-defying religious ceremony known as naghol (a.k.a. land diving) that inspired modern-day bungee jumping.

Every year, as Vanuatu's wild ... home on the southern tip of Pentecost Island. But he was saddened when he found out the event had inspired the creation of bungee jumping, a global sport he ...

Bungee jumping was invented in Vanuatu The island of Pentecost is the birthplace of land diving, a traditional practice that inspired modern bungee jumping. Volcanic landscapes abound Vanuatu is ...

P E N T E C O S T   I S L A N D, Vanuatu, July 25 -- They are the real deal: the original bungee jumpers. Deep in the jungle of Pentecost Island ... The idea is to jump from as high ...

AJ Hackett should negotiate with people in Vanuatu to compensate ... back of the centuries-old tradition of bungy jumping, a lawyer says. On Pentecost Island, one of the 83 islands that make ...

The man who performed the world’s first bungee jump - off ... from the Pacific island of Vanuatu with film of the men living in one particular place - the southern part of Pentecost Island ...

Air Vanuatu Tours (+678 23 848) also offer day tours inclusive of airport transfers in Port Vila, airfare to Pentacost Island, spectator fee for land diving and lunch at Pentecost Island for ...

Air Vanuatu Tours (+678 23 848) also offer day tours inclusive of airport transfers in Port Vila, airfare to Pentacost Island, spectator fee for land diving and lunch at Pentecost Island for ...