The daring stunt that put bungee jumping on the map

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In 1987, two adventurers from New Zealand made a daring—and illegal—televised bungee jump off the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Host Phil Keoghan meets one of those men, who shows us how the extreme sport went global.

The daring stunt that put bungee jumping on the map (2:52)