Pentecost Island has a yearly ritual where the men jump from a tower with vines attached to their legs. ... performed by the tribal men on the small Pentecost Island in the South Pacific.

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Falling at speeds of more than 40mph from a 90ft tower, the Pentecost land divers stop inches short of a certain death, as part of a ritual deemed a rite of passage and an expression of masculinity.

Indigenous people from Vanuatu's Pentecost Island are asking bungee jump operators around the world to pay them royalties for copying their ancient tradition of land diving.