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Angela Nikolau describes herself as being the “world’s most extreme roofer girl inspired by art and heights”, as well as an extreme creator and a painter.
She calls the pictures of herself atop some of the world’s tallest and most iconic buildings ‘art’ and sells them as NFTs.
Does this mean I can start marketing my reading-in-bed selfies as ‘extreme’ and sell them on OpenSea for pure bank? If not me, someone else should try.
Anyway, the Russian free-climber and influencer is on to something, sending social media into a tizzy with her vertigo-inducing content.
A recent post of herself perched on the edge of the world’s second-highest building, as picked up by the Daily Mail, will definitely give you full-body chills.
She is said to have climbed the 2 227-foot (678-metre) Merdeka Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with her boyfriend Ivan Beerkus, a building she notes as the “most beautiful skyscraper’ she has ever visited”:
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The building is dwarfed only by the 2 716-foot (827-metre) Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Of course, there is more content:
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She tells the story about how she managed the climb on Twitter:
⚡️The time has come and I’d love to share the giga story how I climbed the incredible Merdeka 118⚡️
Couldn’t help adding @steveaoki music here as it was playing in my head when I was standing on top of the world.
Feel the dizziness of being there with meBack to the story👇 pic.twitter.com/PYtwbzLX9T
— Angela Nikolau 💎 (@AngelaNikolau_) January 4, 2023
This is what she wrote:
‘I fell in love with the Merdeka 118 Tower the moment I saw it. I felt an instant spiritual connection. Such a majestic building in the middle of an amazing city – I had to discover and share the views with others.’
Hey, Rob van Vuuren, we found a ‘Namaste Bae’ with a “spiritual” connection to a building over here for you.
She goes on with a subtle but sellable mention of the fact that she got naked somewhere along the climb:
3/ Day X – I started the mission. I was wearing a hijab, glasses and a builder’s uniform to look as unnoticeable as possible. I ran the first 32 floors and got overheated. I had to lie down on the concrete floor naked to cool down a little bit. I drank all the water I had.
— Angela Nikolau 💎 (@AngelaNikolau_) January 4, 2023
Nikolau also noted that she had rented an apartment with a good view of the tower so that she could conduct “surveillance of the building”, saying that she spent several weeks researching details that would help her with the climb.
It looks like either Nikolau and her Bo trespassed (in December, the Malaysian police were investigating the couple for trespassing) or they faked the whole thing:
Interesting plot twist🤔 https://t.co/LKj1SsEdQn
— Angela Nikolau 💎 (@AngelaNikolau_) January 9, 2023
Anyway, it is good publicity for the 118-storey Merdeka Tower, which is due for completion by mid-2023, according to the developer.
In this day and age, anything and everything goes.
[source:dailymail]
