Land Diving at Pentecost Island in Vanuatu

The ancient tradition of land-diving is still practiced on remote Pentecost Island in Vanuatu as a rite of passage and an agricultural fertility ritual. Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic guests were witness to the rare ceremony during the inaugural expedition of National Geographic Orion. Video by Jim Napoli.

so we’re here on Pentecost Island in vanatu with lindblad Expeditions National Geographic and uh we’re at the land divers I’m going to attempt to climb up here to the top of this Tower with a GoPro mount it up on the top and uh film this amazing amazing event uh the camera’s going to be up there and we’re hopefully going to capture probably not done before with a GoPro and hardly ever done before with cameras incredible event they’re going to tie Vines to their ankles and jump off and we’re going to hopefully capture it all uh we’re here on Pentecost Island in vanatu and we’re going to be watching the vine jumping which is the sort of early version of bunge jumping which I’ve never seen before and uh I don’t even know what to expect um it’s absolutely incredible to look up at the vines that they have off of this platform and uh it’s incredible it’s all a discovery and that’s good that’s part of the fun is uh sort of discovering how we’re going to shoot something I w