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Bungee jumping (/ ˈ b ʌ n dʒ i /), also spelled bungy jumping, is an activity that involves a person jumping from a great height while connected to a large elastic cord. The launching pad is usually erected on a tall structure such as a building or crane, a bridge across a deep ravine , or on a natural geographic feature such as a cliff.
Bungee Jump A seven story Bungee tower, with a permanent 7 story platform designed especially for bungee jumping Skycoaster A 110 foot high hang-gliding/flying simulator that reaches speeds up to 60 mph. Ejection Seat (Texas Blast Off) Rockets straight up 150 feet into the air, at a speed of zero to 70 mph in 1.2 seconds. Nothin' But Net
In 1991, Action Park opened up a 70-foot-tall (21 m), two-station bungee jumping tower near the alpine slide. During news media coverage of the ride's opening, Andy Mulvihill pushed a television reporter who refused to make the jump off the platform, at the direction of his older sister, then head of public relations for the park. [ 4 ]
Insider's author went bungee jumping in Queenstown, New Zealand. She mistakenly forgot to pack Advil and ate a hefty breakfast.
William Kitchen, founder of Sky Fun 1 Inc., and Ken Bird originally came up with the idea of the Skycoaster in 1992. [7] They wanted to find a way to let others experience the thrill of jumping out of a plane or the thrills of bungee jumping, but with the safety factor of a merry-go-round.
Bungee jumping was treated as a novelty for a few years, then became a craze for young people, and is now an established industry for thrill seekers. The club also pioneered a surrealist form of skiing, holding three events at St. Moritz , Switzerland , in which competitors were required to devise a sculpture mounted on skis and ride it down a ...
Customers of Bungee America have leapt off the Bridge to Nowhere in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. A lawsuit threatens to close down the operation.
Bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge in Zambia/Zimbabwe Everest base camp is a popular destination for extreme tourism.. Extreme tourism, also often referred to as danger tourism or shock tourism (although these concepts do not appear strictly similar) is a niche in the tourism industry involving travel to dangerous places (mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, canyons, etc.) or ...