Editing Bungee jumping (section)

=== Early tethered jumping ===
[[File:Pentecost Land Diving.JPG|thumb|[[Land diving]] is a rite of passage for boys of the South Pacific island of [[Pentecost Island|Pentecost]]]]
The [[land diving]] ([[Saa language|Sa]]: ''{{lang|sax|Gol}}'') of [[Pentecost Island]] in [[Vanuatu]] is an ancient ritual in which young men jump from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood. Unlike in modern bungee-jumping, land-divers intentionally hit the ground, but the vines absorb sufficient force to make the impact non-lethal.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y207q |title=The People of Paradise: The Land Divers of Pentecost |website=BBC Television |access-date=7 February 2013 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118165409/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y207q |url-status=live}} First broadcast on 21 April 1960.</ref><ref>AJ Hackett (2008). [http://www.ajhackett.com.au/history.html#info ''History''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917012328/http://www.ajhackett.com.au/history.html#info |date=17 September 2008 }}. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref> The land-diving ritual on Pentecost has been claimed as an inspiration by [[A. J. Hackett]], prompting calls from the islanders' representatives for compensation for what they view as the [[Cultural appropriation|unauthorised appropriation of their cultural property]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://world.time.com/2013/08/01/after-decades-vanuatus-original-bungee-jumpers-may-get-financial-recognition/|title=Vanuatu, Cradle of Bungee Jumping, May Finally Get Just Recognition|magazine=Time|access-date=18 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419002132/http://world.time.com/2013/08/01/after-decades-vanuatus-original-bungee-jumpers-may-get-financial-recognition/|archive-date=19 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

A tower {{convert|4000|ft|m|order=flip}} high with a system to drop a "car" suspended by a cable of "best rubber" was proposed for the Chicago World Fair, 1892–1893. The car, seating two hundred people, would have been shoved from a platform on the tower and then would have bounced to a stop. The designer engineer suggested that for safety the ground below "be covered with eight feet of feather bedding". The proposal was declined by the Fair's organizers.<ref>Eric Larson, 2003 p135, ''The Devil in the White City; Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America''. Citing ''Chicago Tribune'', 9 November 1889.</ref>