Duck Fashion Show In Australia

During Easter, parades happen all around the globe, but in Australia a very different type of parade happen, ducks in different dresses walk among the people. The fashionable flock, known as the Pied Piper Ducks, marched up and down the streets of Sydney at the city’s Royal Easter Show. 60-year-old Brian Harrington run this show for some 25 years and dresses his ducks according to the latest fashion trends for each event.

The costumes are covered in brilliiant detail, color and fabrics made from best materials and by best designer dressmakers. According to Brian Harrington these feathered models are just as talented as their human counterparts.












Via: Telegraph, Flickr

Land Diving in Vanuatu

Land diving (Nagol or N’gol) is a special tribal ritual that looks like bungee jumping performed by the men of the southern part of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Men jump off of wooden towers around 20 to 30 metres (66 to 98 ft) high, with two tree vines wrapped around the ankles. Land diving is done without any safety equipment. The land diver's objective or at least one of the requirements of the land dive is that he must hit his head on the ground. The tradition has developed into a tourist attraction.

It is believed that the ritual of the N’gol began centuries, perhaps millennia ago, when a beaten woman ran away from her husband, Tamale. He found her hiding in a tall tree and called to her that if she came down he might beat her.

Local residents believe he climbed the tree and as he made his final grab, she leaped. In anguish at her death (or anger that he had missed her) Tamale jumped after her, not realising his wife had tied liana vines around her ankles and survived the fall.

Tough Guy 2012

The Tough Guy 2012 competition took place on January 29, 2012 in Perton, England. Every year, thousands of men and women tackle the course, which is described on the Tough Guy website as eight country miles filled with freezing mud and "barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia, acrophobia, claustrophobia, electric shocks, sprains, twists, joint dislocation and broken bones." First staged in 1986, it has been widely described as “the toughest race in the world”, with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year.


































































































Via: theatlantic