Bangee Jump I
by cuanyu at 02/24/2001 16:28 Beijing Time
The first time was in HuaiRou near Beijing. It was a sunny saturday when I was lying on the bed in the hotel waitting for a call never come. Suddenly an idea come out. Why don't I go out to have some fun and release me from the work. I have been told many times before that the most exciting bangee jump in China was located in QingLongXia not far from HuaiRou. Immediately I jump off the bed and ran out diving into the beautiful sunshine.
QingLongXia is a very small reservoir which you can hardly find on the map. You can see part of Great Wall there. A smart man setup a platform on the top of the damp and opened the bangee jump business there.
You have to sign on a small paper declaring that you don't have any disease that will cause death or harm before you buy the ticket. You also have to sign an insurance contract . I hesitated for a moment. Should I donate the money to the Hope Project? I wrote down the name definitely--my father's name.
It was on the top of the tower when I start to wonder if I really want to do this. 150 yuan for strong heart beating of one minute while all my life depends on the elastic band around my feet?
No time to think. The guy controlling the rope pushed me to the edge impatiently. He must have an plane to catch, I thought.
A girl was holding a video camera on the fourth flooor of the tower.She will capture every seconds of me in the next minutes.
Hmm,Pretty girl.
Smile to her !
Wave hands to her !
And...
Here I go !
Actually you don't have too much feelings when you finally jump off since all the blood seem to be pushed into your head. I wonder how could those parachuter act when they are in the air. I tried hard to find the girl taping me but only to find that I lost the sense of direction at all.
Later when I read the book "Into the thin air", I learned that many climbers, especially those adventurers take bangee jump as a stupid thing.
I agree with them. I forgot to take out the key for my room in hotel from my pocket and dropped it into the lake when I jumped down. I have to pay 5 yuan more to get a new key as a compensation for the hotel.
