David Kirke (DSC)

David Kirke (b.1945) is a founding member of the Dangerous Sports Club and was the first man to perform the modern bungee jump in 1979.

He studied at Wellington College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he studied English and philosophy. After a brief spell as a publisher in London, he returned to Oxford in the late 1960s and founded the Dangerous Sports Club with Edward Hulton.

See also

• Dangerous Sports Club

External links

• Photographs of The Dangerous Sports Club
• Interview with David Kirke
• Independent Online article, February 21 1998
• Daily Telegraph Online Article, July 6 2004

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