{"id":7149,"date":"2013-05-11T19:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2013-05-11T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T14:10:07","slug":"russian-daredevil-takes-his-life-in-his-hands-as-he-hangs-like-a-monkey-off-1000ft-crane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7149","title":{"rendered":"Russian daredevil takes his life in his hands as he hangs like a monkey off 1,000ft crane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"b1\"<\/a>These pictures taken from footage showing a Russian teenager climbing around a crane 1,000ft up in the sky are enough to make your palms sweat even if you have never suffered from vertigo.<\/p>\n

The youth is seen walking along the crane as if it were a tightrope, without showing even a flicker of fear at being so far from the ground.<\/p>\n

Without a safety harness, hard hat or even a rope, he confidently walks – and even skips – along the red metal crane in his trainers.<\/p>\n

The three-minute clip, posted on Youtube, shows his astonishing courage (or should that read foolhardiness?) as he casually strips off his jumper and puts on a woolly hat for his sky-high work-out<\/p>\n

The boy, who looks little older than 16 or 17, then climbs over the side and hangs from just one hand.<\/p>\n

The cars in the street below are so tiny they look like toys as he does monkey bars dangling off the crane.<\/p>\n

Eventually, just when the viewer’s nerves can take it no longer, the film stops with the logo Dangerous For Life.<\/p>\n

It has already been viewed by tens of thousands of armchair adventurers, though most of those who commented on Youtube realised the danger the youth was putting himself in.<\/p>\n

One wrote: This crazy kid is probably going to be responsible for so many tragic deaths, if not his own.
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