Bungee jumping seems like a much safer alternative when you’re comparing it to the ancient tradition of land diving (or nagol). National Geographic shows how villagers in the South Pacific jump off a ...

An old legend says land diving began on the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. A woman was being mistreated by her husband. She would run away, and he would catch her and bring her back. The last ...

A land diver with a pair of vines tied to his ankles jumps from a 30-meter-high platform on the Vanuatuan Island of Pentecost as part of an ancient land-diving ritual called nagol — the precursor to ...