The best places to do bungee jumping
Bungee Jumping (or Bungee Jumping) is an activity in which a person is launched from a height, usually hundreds of meters, with one of the points of the rope elastic tied to his body or ankle, and the other end pinned to the starting point for the leap. When the person jumps, the rope will extend to assume the energy of the fall, then the subject rise and fall until the initial energy the jump disappears.
The word bungee first appeared in 1930 and was the name of a draft. In the decade of the 50 David Attenborough and the television BBC have brought again material of the “land divers” of the island Pentecostal in Vanuatu, young people jumping from high platforms with ropes tailored to their ankles as a test of courage. This film inspired Chris Baker of Bristol, England to use the elastic ropes in a game of entertainment. The first bungee jump modern was done on 1 April 1979 from Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, and it was done by four members of a club of extreme sports. The springtails, led by David Kirke, were arrested shortly after, but continued with the jumps in the United States, thus spreading the concept of bungee jump worldwide. By 1982 jumped from cranes and balloons, appearing on television.