A great many people are afraid of heights but not these people.
Electrical pole workers, hikers, and free-solo climbers have taken in sights from death-defying heights, yet most of them keep going back. It’s probably some sort of evolutionary flaw that allows them to regularly risk their lives, but I guess someone has to climb a thousand-foot pole and change a light bulb every once in a while.
Here are some insane people who are climbing too close to the Sun.
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Extreme parkour
Chilling on an air conditioner
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China’s rooftop daredevil
Shanghai, China
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Cliffside chores
Extreme ironing done on a cliff
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Tight rope walker risking it all
Colorado Springs
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Power pole climbing
Workers training to fix electrical wiring
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Real-life Spider-Man
Alain Roberts free solo climbing the Burj Khalifa
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Researcher Wendy Baxter climbs a fixed rope up into a 86.6m-tall giant sequoia tree
Photo by Anthony Ambrose
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Climbing Monolithe de Sardières in France
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Iron Workers pose for a photo atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, 1973
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An urban explorer braving a crane
Shanghai Tower, China
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Hiker taking a break
Above Adana, Turkey
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Workers taking a selfie
Standing on top of the newly built Wilshire Grand Tower in Los Angeles
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Lunch at 1,000 feet, atop the Five Finger viewing tower, Austria
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Kevin Schmidt climbing an antenna to change a light bulb
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Morbius (Jared Leto) climbing the Empire State Building
He said “It was a lot harder than I thought it would be”.
