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Land diving

If you like bungee jumping, this might still scare the crap out of you

In the region of Southeast Asia is the Pentecost Island, home of people that practice a unique and little known ritual known as land diving, or N’gol.  It involves, basically, jumping dozens of feet from a giant tower of wood into mostly nothing.  The only thing that breaks your fall is a pile of dirt and the stretchy vines attached to your ankles.

 

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