Goldeneye Bungy from the Verzasca Dam

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‘WOW’

This is one of those cliche things that it seems like everyone knows about and wants to do - but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Standing on the lip of the dam it's really easy to think this could be one of your last moment on earth. Without being too gratuitous I did imagine my head splattering like a watermelon against the side of the dam on my way down (which some how made it easier for me to jump when Timmy counted down?). But the desire to be as Bond was strong enough to urge me on...and the fact that I had dared my friend to do it with me and he had gone first even though if I had gone first and died I told him he wouldn't have to go through with it. But Bond has some big shoes to fill in my book and this isn't the only Bond stunt I am trying to replicate.

Obviously I didn't die. Instead I got one of the biggest rushes of my life. Some people were all like: it's not that great a location what are you going to see etc. but being able to see the dam wall wooshing past in your peripheral vision made your velocity all the more real. Seven seconds of falling - that is actually a pretty long time - count it out in Mississippis and you'll see what I mean, then imagine plummeting headfirst off a structure that large. This is actually heaps more thrilling than skydiving because of the perspective.

Wow. All I can say is get hold of the movie and think about what it would be like to do it and pack an extra pair of daks.

5 / 5 Review by member paul.birss