Nepal Just Built the World's Highest Swing — and It Launches You 228 Metres Over a Gorge

Step off a platform 228 metres above the Kali Gandaki river, and for six full seconds there is nothing under you but Himalayan air. That's the pitch of Nepal's newest adrenaline record: a swing, built into a gorge two hours from Pokhara, that is now officially the highest in the world.

The site opened in October 2021 as The Cliff Nepal, also marketed as Kushma Bungee, and it was built specifically to take a world ranking Nepal didn't already hold. Nepal has been an extreme-jump destination since 2010, when The Last Resort near Kathmandu built a 160-metre canyon swing over the Bhote Koshi river that is still recognised as the longest canyon swing on Earth. Kushma went a different direction: rather than the longest swing, it built the highest one, rigging the same 228-metre platform for two separate rides — a pendulum swing and a vertical bungee — over the same stretch of gorge.

The physics of the two rides are different enough that operators sell them as separate experiences off the same platform. The bungee is a straight vertical drop on an elastic cord — roughly four seconds of true free-fall before the cord begins to absorb the energy. The swing uses dynamic ropes rigged at an angle, so the initial drop curves into a wide pendulum arc across the gorge — a longer, slower-building rush that operators say first-timers often find more intense than the bungee, despite the shorter vertical fall. A tandem or couple's swing costs around Rs 13,500 (roughly $100); the bungee alone is Rs 7,500 (about $55).

What makes Kushma notable beyond the numbers is where it sits. The platform is rigged directly over the Kali Gandaki, the river that carved the deep gorge on the trekking route between Pokhara and Jomsom, with peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri massifs visible from the jump itself. It has become exactly the kind of shareable, single-day adrenaline stop a Pokhara-based trekking trip didn't used to have room for — most visitors previously had to choose between the older Bhote Koshi site (a long drive the other direction, toward the Tibet border) or skip the jump altogether.

Source: Kushma Bungee Jump — The Cliff Nepal

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