Getting Emotional Over an 80 Meter Drop

March 18, 2006 | In keeping busy | By Nat
  I wasn’t surprised when my brother told me he bungee jumped over a deep and narrow canyon in the high mountains of Switzerland… 

What really got my attention was that he explained to me that he ducktapped his digital camera to his hand and somehow kept it focused on his face throughout the fall to capture his first freefall experience.

   “Frankly, I never really liked the idea of bungee jumping. A two second freefall, followed by two or three hundred seconds of being dangled around by my ankles like a trapped animal didn’t strike me as a “gotta do it” kind of thing.

But the bungee swing is something completely different.

Imagine a canyon, 80 metres deep and nowhere near as many wide. Sling a cable across the top, attach bungee cord halfway across the canyon (and the other end to yourself) and jump! But unlike regular bungee, the rush isn’t over at the end of the freefall - once the rope is taut, the centrifugal forces take you and fling you along between the canyon walls, swinging you back and forth a few times. Eventually momentum slows and your are given the gift of getting to continue your life…but all you can think of is wanting to do it again!

So much for survival instinct. “ 


Click below to see the video an amazing sense of control over the camera : VIDEO: An encapsulated reaction bungee-jumping into this 80 foot canyon (4.5 MEGs) 



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