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 ...

When the yam crop emerges in early April on Vanuatu’s Pentecost Island, the locals begin to ... is seen as a precursor to bungee jumping and the country has even sought royalties from modern ...

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 ...

BUNGEE JUMPING is for wimps. Make your way over to Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, between April and June each year and you'll find the locals engaging in land diving. This entails tying a vine around ...