Cave of Swallows Jump
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Cave of Swallows Jump, refers to viral clips of people jumping into the Cave of Swallows. Most of these clips originate from the David Attenborough narrated BBC Nature Documentary Planet Earth. Videos of the jumps have been edited with different sound effects, music, videogame interfaces overlaid over them, or have captions added for humorous effect.
Origin
On Apr 22, 2007, episode 4 of the nature documentary series Planet Earth titled "caves" premiered.[1] The beginning of the episode shows different clips of people jumping into the pit cave known as the Cave of Swallows in Mexico[2].
The oldest known surviving clip of this online was on YouTube on Sep 30, 2007[3]. This video amassed 200,000 views within 3 years[4] and nearly 1 million views in 10 years[5].
Spread
On December 21st 2009, a gif of some of the jumps was uploaded to the website 4GIFS.com [6] (shown below).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] IMDb – BBC Planet Earth: Caves
[2] Wikipedia – Cave of Swallows
[3] Youtube – Cave of Swallows – Schwalbenhöhle in Mexico
[4] Youtube (Wayback Machine)- Cave of Swallows – Schwalbenhöhle in Mexico
[5] Youtube (Wayback Machine)- Cave of Swallows – Schwalbenhöhle in Mexico
[6] 4Gifs.com – Dark-cave-BASE-Jump
![[4k] Guy Jumping Off Cliff Meme Template](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IKlkrsa2rWQ/hqdefault.jpg "[4k] Guy Jumping Off Cliff Meme Template")
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