“The first time you do it you feel a bit nervous, but after two or three times, it becomes normal, like rugby or boxing or any sport.” Fidael Beaf could easily be describing bungee jumping. But the 44 ...

Every year, as Vanuatu's wild monsoon season comes to an end, Chief Luke Fargo instructs the boys of his village to build a 30-metre tower using branches cut from a nearby forest. Indigenous groups in ...

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 ...