http://www.greatbigleap.com Bungee Jump Headquarters Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:27:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After the 2009 hiatus, it looks like the Games, which feature B.A.S.E. and bungee jumping are coming back to the Royal Gorge Bridge in 2010. According to PeakRadar.com the official date is slated September 17 - 19. Admission is $24, and it will be running from 10am - 7pm each day. The official ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/royal-gorge-games-2010/ The Stratosphere just opened up a new "bungee jump" location in Las Vegas. Here's the first video from the jump: http://www.greatbigleap.com/las-vegas-bungee-jump-skyjump/ Thanks to Gray, Rafal, Darek, and a number of other users for some great tips on new bungee jump locations! We've added them! In other news, bungee is coming back to Vegas! In town for a bachelor's party? Outdoor hub? Just to gamble? Now you have ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/new-location/ The tallest commercial jump spot in the world. Get you excited? We are, too. Operated by the good people at AJ Hackett, this 233 m (764 feet) jump sits in Macau, a "special administration region" similar to Hong Kong. In fact, this area in southeastern China is closer ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/macau-tower-china/ Just got a (wildly brief) note from the people from Royal Gorge Bridge. Looks like Go Fast! will only be putting this event on every other year from now one. So, be ready for 2010! http://www.greatbigleap.com/royal-gorge-games-2009-2/ Thanks to one of our readers, Natalie, we just found out that this year's Royal Gorge Games has been cancelled. No news yet on why. You can read the original post: here. http://www.greatbigleap.com/royal-gorge-games-2009-cancelled/ Spanning the Colorado River, these bridges are in the heart of the Grand Canyon National Park, spanning the Marble Canyon in Arizona. It's tough not to make a great video of this picturesque spot. http://www.greatbigleap.com/navajo-bridges-usa-467-ft-142-m/ We just passed our 7-week anniversary here at GreatBigLeap, and we're really excited about how the website has come along. We appreciate all of your comments and emails of encouragement. Thanks, too, for all of the new locations that we're still sorting through. There's a lot of places out ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/7-weeks-running/ Today's highlighted bungee jump location is the Victoria Falls Bridge. This jump is located on the Zambezi River, which partially forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Wikipedia has an entry about the bridge here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Falls_Bridge This monstrous bungee jump costs US$105 per jump, US$145 per tandem jump. Here is ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/victoria-falls-zambia/ We have been scouring the internet looking for bungee jump locations to put up on the site. A few observations: - It is amazing how many sites out there stopped updating in 2002 - It is amazing how many sites out there stopped updating in 1995 - It is depressing how many ... http://www.greatbigleap.com/updating-the-bungee-jump-locations-kind-of-depressing/