{"id":157,"date":"2017-01-18T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro-travel\/?p=157"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:27:09","slug":"nepal-bungy-jumpthe-last-resort-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro-travel\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Bungy Jump!The Last Resort in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot (76\u00a0m) Clifton Suspension Bridge<\/a> in Bristol, by David Kirke and Simon Keeling,\u00a0both members of the Oxford University<\/a> Dangerous Sports Club<\/a>.The jumpers were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate Bridge<\/a> and the Royal Gorge Bridge<\/a> (this last jump sponsored by and televised on the American<\/a> programme That’s Incredible<\/a><\/i>), spreading the concept worldwide. By 1982, they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons.<\/p>\n

Organised commercial bungee jumping began with the New Zealander, A J Hackett<\/a>, who made his first jump from Auckland<\/a>‘s Greenhithe Bridge<\/a> in 1986.\u00a0During the following years, Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures (including the Eiffel Tower<\/a>), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world’s first permanent commercial bungee site, the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge<\/a> near Queenstown<\/a> in the South Island<\/a> of New Zealand.\u00a0Hackett remains one of the largest commercial operators, with concerns in several countries.<\/p>\n

Several million successful jumps have taken place since 1980. This safety record is attributable to bungee operators rigorously conforming to standards and guidelines governing jumps, such as double checking calculations and fittings for every jump.[citation needed<\/span><\/a><\/i>]<\/sup> As with any sport, injuries can still occur (see below), and there have been fatalities. A relatively common mistake in fatality cases is to use a cord that is too long. The cord should be substantially shorter than the height of the jumping platform<\/a> to allow it room to stretch. When the cord becomes taut and then is stretched, the tension in the cord progressively increases. Initially the tension is less than the jumper’s weight and the jumper continues to accelerate downwards. At some point, the tension equals the jumper’s weight and the acceleration is temporarily zero. With further stretching, the jumper has an increasing upward acceleration and at some point has zero vertical velocity before recoiling upward. See also Potential energy<\/a> for a discussion of the spring constant and the force required to distort bungee cords and other spring-like objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot (76\u00a0m) Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by David Kirke and Simon Keeling,\u00a0both members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.The jumpers were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate Bridge and the Royal Gorge Bridge (this last jump sponsored…<\/p>\n

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