What is the history of bungee jumping?
Indigenous people of the Penecoste Islands in the South Pacific have jumped off of bamboo towers with vines tied to their legs for thousands of years. England’s Oxford Dangerous Sports Club started the modern version of the sport on April 1, 1978 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. In 1988 the Kockleman Brothers in the US and A.J. Hackett in New Zealand started commercial jumping for the public.