Adrenaline Junkie V

New Zealand’s reputation as an essential experience for thrill seekers was again cemented by the return of Jack Osbourne - one of the world’s best known adrenaline junkies.

Osbourne, on his fourth visit to New Zealand for his popular Adrenaline Junkie series, brought with him a star-studded celebrity posse, comprising Jesse Metcalfe, Reggie Yates and Joanna Page.

The entourage arrived in New Zealand with a mix of excitement and anxious anticipation, all keen to discover why the youngest country on earth is an adventurers’ paradise.

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The crew then made their way south to Queenstown - New Zealand’s adventure capital. AJ Hackett Bungy again featured when the team headed out to the Nevis Arc - a new 125-metre swing through the Doolan’s Creek canyon.

Just when it seemed the stars had taken bungy jumping in their stride, AJ Hackett pulled out one final ace - a bungy into pitch black darkness. The crew headed to AJ Hackett’s Ledge Bungy at night and plummeted from the platform into the nothingness below.

With the bungy jumping box well and truly ticked, the stars received an altitude boost - from 40 metres to 5,000 metres. If jumping off a bridge was hard, the free falling blast of tandem skydiving with NZONE was mind numbing. Jack and his friends quickly realised that while Queenstown was beautiful from the ground, the view from a parachute was majestic.

As the shoot wound down to a close, the group prepared to face their greatest challenge - a world-first heli-swing. The location was Cecil Peak, which stands high above Queenstown at just under 2,000 metres high.

After a freezing night in tents on the mountainside, and a warm-up of alpine slacklining, the crew took their final plunge. Harnessed only to the landing skid of a helicopter hovering above, they each threw themselves off Cecil Peak with the closest point of terra firma lying 1,000 metres below.

With 10 days, two bungy jumps, one giant swing, a skydive and a world first 1,000-metre heli-swing behind them, Jack and his friends waved goodbye to New Zealand well satisfied with the repeated doses of the adrenaline they had been promised. The only question left begging was: when will Jack be back?