Ask Mike Heard what kind of kid he was and he’ll tell you he wasn’t overly adventurous.
But at the age of seven, he remembers hearing about bungy jumping for the first time, and tying a cord around his ankles with his brother and diving off the top bunk bed onto the pillows below.
As a teenager, he competed in the rock-climbing national championships and did several skydives. And as a 41-year-old father-of-two, he leapt off the Auckland Harbour Bridge
