Two adventurous thrill-seekers climb the 120-floor Shanghai tower
To a Chinese construction worker, spending two hours hiking up a 2,100 foot building would be just another day at the unfinished office. For two “urban ninjas”, however, it is a dream come true.
Vadim Makharov and Vitaliy Raskalov, a pair of Russian adrenaline junkies, posted a video of themselves scaling the unfinished tower, which, upon completion, will be the largest in China.
The dizzying footage shows the team sneaking into the construction site and advancing way above the cloudline on the early hours of January 31st, Lunar New Year’s day, completely without safety equipment.
The pair also scaled the crane atop the unfinished skyscraper and published a series of photos highly unsuitable to vertigo suffers on their popular blog. On their dubious CV, the infamous duo also boast scaling the Great Pyramid of Giza as one of their more daring feats.
Grace Zhu, marketing director for the Shanghai Tower, has said the construction team are “looking into some countermeasures” to ward people off future expeditions. For most of us, however, photos from the top of the crane will probably be enough.