You didn’t really join the Dangerous Sports Club; it was more a loose affiliation of people at Oxford University who enjoyed doing silly, slightly illegal things. They invented bungee jumping, with the world’s first jump off the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol on 1 April 1979. I didn’t do anything dangerous until my first bungee jump, off a crane at a county fair in Winchester. But the club’s founder, David Kirke, wanted to expand it into an event with all sorts of things on skis. Nigella Lawson is playing croquet; her boyfriend at the time was Hubie Gibbs, who is next to me at the back.

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2016 15:00 UTC