few are more spectacular than witnessing nagol, the traditional harvest ritual of “land diving” practiced in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. The precursor to the extreme ...

Every year, as Vanuatu's wild monsoon season comes ... invites people from around the world to watch these land diving ceremonies, called Nagol, from his home on the southern tip of Pentecost ...

When Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited Vanuatu in 1974, the Pentecost islanders put on a land diving show for her. However, it was the wrong season and the vines were dry — so they snapped ...

An ancient ritual on remote Pentecost Island is a heady experience. Land-diving on Vanuatu's remote Pentecost Island was once an ancient, unique and private ritual where young men hurled ...

But for some of Vanuatu’s most stunning sights ... The island is most famous for the land diving ritual known as “Nagol” where men jump off a 20m tower with only a vine attached to their ...

The bonkers tradition called Land Diving sees young men and boys climb ... place during April and May in the South Pacific Island of Vanuatu. It is known locally as the Naghol and is considered ...

Bungee jumping was invented in Vanuatu The island of Pentecost is the birthplace of land diving, a traditional practice that inspired modern bungee jumping. Volcanic landscapes abound Vanuatu is ...

Vanuatu has become the latest Pacific country ... and cites bungy jumping as an example which resembles the traditional Nagol jump of South Pentecost. It comes just weeks after Samoa passed ...