Skywalking photos

[d7e7r7]

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If you’re afraid of heights you may want to look away, and you should certainly never make friends with these daredevil photographers from Russia. We here in the U.S. have memes, young Russian photographers, it seems, have “skywalking”: the newest extremely dangerous photography fad to hit the Internet.

Skywalking basically involves a photographer making his way up to a death-defying height, and snapping a photo that’s meant to give you both a perspective you’ve never seen before, and that feeling like your stomach just made its way into your throat. Many of the photographers are in their teens, and unfortunately, with no sign of safety equipment anywhere in these photos, someone is gonna get hurt.

From Petapixel

All I can say is yikes

edit: oh bugger - just noticed I miss-spelled skywalking... can a mod please fix it... thanks

 

[koffiejunkie]

[video=youtube;Ygzq_iXHTuY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygzq_iXHTuY[/video]

Same (crazy) people?

 

[zyro]

Took all the effort to get up there and they didn't even take a BASE rig with them? for shame!

 

[JossM10]

Great photos but that’s very dangerous photographing. Russians have a perspective on safety that people should not follow IMO.