Russian Skywalkers Photograph European Buildings from the Air

Russian photographers and daredevils Vadim Mahora and Vitaly Raskalovym travel Europe with a clear purpose — to illegally climb to the highest point of the city’s main attraction, hang off its edge, and capture their extraordinary viewpoint. Their latest adventure had them scaling skyscrapers, construction cranes, and cathedral steeples, exposing some of the most magnificent and outrageous perspectives of architecture and urban sites.

Their non-conventional form of tourism brought them to 12 cities, soaring to the top of renowned monuments like Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the gothic spires of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

a view down to the 150 meter high spire of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany
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atop a construction crane at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona
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looking down at the city below the Sagrada Família
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the ceiling of the Sagrada Família
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the interior of Gaudi’s masterwork in Barcelona
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the team manged to get into the Basilica of the Sacre Coeur
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peering down at Warsaw, Poland
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at the very edge of a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland
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peering off a the side of a building under construction in the area of la Defense, Paris
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(left) feet dangling from the Eiffel Tower in Paris
(right) atop a high point in Warsaw’s old town
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