Today, such a feat would be impossible to do at the Golden Gate Bridge simply because of all the security. Then again, this is quite possibly the reason for all the security on the Golden Gate Bridge today.

If you’ve ever wondered who’d be crazy enough to invent bungee jumping, you’re in luck.

Most sports were invented hundreds of years ago, so any footage of the first soccer game, for example, is impossible to find because there weren’t any cameras around back then. As for extreme sports, on the other hand, the same can’t be said.

When I think of bungee jumping, I usually think of thrill seekers and not well-dressed Englishmen. Not even the news stations knew what to think of the incident! It took 30 years, but we now know a piece of extreme sports history was made.