“I would have shit myself” (24 photos)
Photos from 2013 that make your palms sweat and your stomach clench treacherously.
Extreme sportsmen walking over an abyss on a tightrope or flying over it on a motorcycle, thunderclouds reminiscent of pictures of the apocalypse - just looking at such photographs makes your heart skip a beat and your soul sink into your boots.
We present the best photographs of events on the verge of admiration and fear, the realization of the reality of which makes your head spin. But we warn you: if you are at work, you will have to restrain your emotions, because there will be a lot of them.
Dizzying heights
Incredible footage of people and structures suspended between heaven and earth. These photos are breathtaking.
1. On the Death Path of Mount Huashan. Shaanxi Province, China.
2. Roofers on the star of the Hilton-Leningradskaya Hotel. Moscow, Russia.
3. Rock climber Alex Honnold conquers a mountain in Yosemite National Park without insurance. USA.
4. Extreme kayaking at Victoria Falls. Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
5. Colombian Orlando Duke jumps off a cliff during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Azores, Portugal.
6. Athlete Ian Morrison in the mountains of Whistler. Colombia, Canada.
7. House at an altitude of 2000 meters in the ski resort of Champoussin, Switzerland. View of the mountains Les Dents du Midi.
8. Eskil Ronningsbakken and his student Moses Wepukhuli perform a balance figure.
9. Swing “At the End of the World”. Baños, Ecuador.
10. Athlete Blake Aldridge (Blake Aldridge) jumps from a height of 30 meters at the Red Bull Cliff Diving competition. Oman.
11. Slackliner Brian Mosbaugh walks on a tightrope at an altitude of 850 meters. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
12. American tightrope walker Nik Wallenda crosses the Grand Canyon without insurance. The metal cable is stretched at a height of more than 450 meters. Las Vegas, USA.
13. Toilet at the Russian weather station Kara-Turek. At an altitude of 2,600 meters.
14. French rock climber and skyscraper conqueror Alain Robert on the 828-meter-high Burj Khalifa. Dubai, UAE.
15. Tennis court on the tallest building in Dubai, Burj Khalifa. Dubai, UAE.
16. Zhang, caretaker of the cable car connecting the Chinese village of Yushan with the outside world. It lies above a picturesque valley at an altitude of 400 meters. The length of the road is 1000 meters. Once a week, Zhang lubricates the entire length of the cables with oil.
17. Swing over Glenwood Canyon. Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA.
18. Overnight on a steep cliff in Yosemite National Park. USA.
19. A cable car connecting the Chinese village of Yushan with the outside world.
A second before disaster
How these 6 photographers managed to stand up calmly and press the camera button, instead of running headlong, is understandable, probably, only to the photographers themselves.
20. In a few seconds, the ship the photographer is on will collide with the giant Shinyo Sawako, a cargo ship from Hong Kong, after which it will immediately sink.
21. Impending thunderstorm in Romania. June 12, 2013.
22. Off the coast of New Zealand, the cargo ship Rena hit a reef, as a result of which it broke into two parts, and containers were scattered around the ship.
23. A tiger breaks free from a cage in a car in the Far East.
24. The profession of a photographer is full of surprises and surprises!
