Shocking! Meet the Guy Who Climbs Insanely Tall Buildings With Bare Hands Just to Take Selfies (Photos)

 

For most people a wild night out means little more than knocking back a few midweek drinks if they're feeling particularly crazy, but for Daniel Lau, it's scaling skyscrapers barehanded, rooftopping, as it's also known.

His activities recently lit up Chinese media thanks to a picture snapped from above China's fourth tallest building. He climbed the 450-meter Zifeng Tower in Nanjing, alongside notorious Russian rooftoppers, Vladimir Sidorov and Ivan Kuznetsov.

 

Lau was also the guy holding the selfie stick on top of a skyscraper in Hong Kong with two banana-eating rooftoppers that boggled the internet last year.

So what motivates someone to pursue such a staggeringly dangerous and often highly illegal pastime? Lau tells CNN, it's because life at ground level is too stressful.

 

 

 

He tells of how his team walked across a bridge to access the the Sathorn tower. "The metal was so rusty, making it so thin, we had to be super cautious when walking. We were walking floor by floor. The special thing about urbex is that there could be something interesting on any floor, around any corner. After climbing 49 floors, we reached the top and waited for the sunrise."

 

 

 

Source: CNN.com