Interactive | Hong Kong as you've never seen it before: Daredevil duo scale city's highest buildings
Two young tourists left the city with the kind of holiday snaps your friends and family would rather not see. Now they are coming back …
After cavorting about on the roofs of 15 skyscrapers in Hong Kong, including the 78-storey, 374metre-high Central Plaza in Wan Chai, two daredevils from Ukraine and Russia plan to return to the city next month to get to the roof of the IFC, some 400 metres above ground.
This month, a video showing them on top of the world's second-tallest building went viral. It shows them making their way up the stairs of the as-yet unfinished Shanghai Tower, then emerging some 630 metres above ground before clambering up a crane - without safety equipment.
"We are Russian and Ukrainian. We don't get scared," said Raskalov, the Ukrainian in that equation, in an interview with the . The duo spent two weeks at the beginning of the year climbing Hong Kong's towers before heading for Shanghai.
"Shanghai is bigger than Hong Kong and polluted and cold," said Raskalov, who is currently in the Thai capital of Bangkok. "The buildings in Hong Kong are so close together that we just had to look up from the ground and choose the nearest tall building to go into. There was no pollution and it was sunny."
The photographs of their visit make frightening viewing. They can be seen edging along a narrow ledge at the top of the 38-storey Best Western Harbour View hotel in Sai Ying Pun and standing on top of the needle of Sino Plaza in Causeway Bay.
