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More risk, more fun: extreme sports of 2014

Updated: 2014-12-09 09:56
(chinadaily.com.cn)
More risk, more fun: extreme sports of 2014

This photo shows 'rooftopper' Kirill Oreshkin dangling from the top of a buildings. [Photo/IC]

The trend of rooftopping, or skywalking, has been documented in the last few years, and seems to be quite popular in Russia and Ukraine. It sees daredevils climb to the top of structures to take a unique, vertigo-inducing selfie.

Despite the danger of his hobby, Oreshkin appears perfectly calm in the photos, even in the ones that show him hanging from structures by one hand.

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