There are Tolstoy, Eisenstein, Rasputin, the dog Laika...and many more.As, for example, all those young Russians who practice skywalking .This is a fashion that, of course , it's all the rage on the Internet.Spectacular and more than dangerous, it makes all your videos and images viral.
What is skywalking?
Walking through the sky is its literal translation.It is a fashion that consists of climbing to the tallest buildings , the most complicated structures, the vertigo constructions or the cranes of the works...Once there, they take a picture, record a video, upload it to the Internet and then, to share while we get our hair on end.
Where is the grace? Well, because these guys do it without any security measures , without harnesses or ropes, without even necessarily shoes or sportswear.There's the risk, climbing with your own hands without any protection.Ah, and when they are at the top, some go beyond, of course, it is never enough.It is not strange to see them do pirouettes or even hang on one hand...
They are the skywalkers, who share another peculiarity: they are Slavs .This activity was born in Russia and although it has spread to many other countries (as it could not happen otherwise with a fashion of this type ) It is they who reach the most impressive milestones.And Russia has a special color.
Stars of the network
Many consider that Marat Dupri was the initiator of this trend.It is a young photographer who used to climb to the roof of his house to photograph the landscape.Soon, this knew little.Thus, he decided to climb to the top to photograph, simply, the chasm that stretched before him.
Although, surely, one of the most famous skywalking lovers is Mustang Wanted, whose real name is Pavlo Gennadiyovich He is a famous Ukrainian in his country for the feats he manages to accomplish.He has climbed to the Votivkirche church in Vienna or to the Princess Tower in Dubai.It is a political activist who takes advantage of his fame to Make your ideas known.On your YouTube channel you have videos with more than eleven million views.
Another couple but very famous are 'The crazy Russians' , a duo formed by Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov.They love traveling to places around the world, looking for the most iconic building and climb it.One of his best-known and controversial challenges was to climb the Pyramid of Cheops .Yes, that of Egypt.It turns out that climbing the pyramids, for those who do not know, It is illegal, but illegal that he is penalized with three years of jail.They gave him quite the same risk and got spectacular views that went around the world.Another of his most spectacular challenges was to climb, without security measures, the tallest building in the world: the Shanghai Tower, 632 meters high .By the way, they also visited Spain, more specifically Barcelona, and took several views of the Sagrada Familia like nobody had ever done before.
Ivan Kuznetsov, aka Beerkus, is another of the names that skywalking lovers know.And, attention, he seeks to go even further and explore new limits.Is this possible in this very complicated discipline? Beerkus tries to overcome the above and among its exploits is the climb to the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, 382 meters.It goes without saying that skywalking in this type of buildings is strongly prohibited, so the risk is physical but also legal.In his photographs he looks for the risk, but also the artistic composition.As he achieves with his sentimental partner, another skywalking fan, who does not hesitate to pose with him in icy scenes of a very peculiar romanticism .
Long live the danger?
The time has come to ask the big question, how and why are people doing these things? One of the direct consequences of a bad step doing skywalking is, well, that the end.There are few sky walkers who have died doing these activities, as is the case of Xenia Ignatyeva , who died in 2014 while trying to become a seflie on one of the bridges in St.Petersburg.
Despite the risk, the skywalking fashion is still in vogue.Those who practice it speak of the sensation of freedom they experience when they feel at heights, when the city is under their feet, small, minuscule...All fears and dangers seem to fade as your gaze projects more and more to the horizon.
Risk activities like human beings, it is a fact.They serve to challenge themselves, to test and overcome their own limits. adrenaline is a hormone that secretes our body into These kinds of situations.And it gives us incredible potential.We feel stronger and faster, capable of anything.Euphoria and happiness envelop us.When the body relaxes, we secrete endorphins, the happiness hormone, such as They call, which makes us feel so good, that many become addicted to that great sensation.
The Russians, there are no others like them
We are used to watching thousands of videos with risky situations.So much that it even begins to be difficult for us to be surprised by a situation, however limited.But there they are, who never let us down.We talked about Russian phlegm.the most amazing and amazing viral videos are those that come to us from the country of the cold .Its inhabitants are celebrated for their daring, the one that manages to leave us stunned.
Very popular are also on the Internet, dashcam, videos of cameras that are carried in the car.We explain, many Russian citizens install cameras on their dashboards to cover their backs .There are few cases of attempted fraud due to a false outrage (yes, people are thrown into cars to pretend that they have been run over and collect compensation).But also those who want to make sure that the Russian police cannot get out of the law when stop a vehicle.
So, these cameras end up capturing authentic unforgettable moments that we cannot miss on YouTube, from accidents, falls, unfortunate encounters (for calling them in a soft way) to phenomena as interesting as the meteorite that fell on the Urals in 2013 and that was captured by thousands of these improvised paparazzi.
What will be the amazing new Russian fashion that impacts us? Surely we can find out soon.
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