If you have a fear of heights and get that tingling sensation in your feet when confronted with them, this isn’t for you.
In an effort to win an alleged $15 000 (R205 000) rooftopping challenge, Wu Yongning fell to his death while attempting to dangle off the Huayuan Hua Centre in Changsha, eastern China.
Rooftopping is that extreme social phenomenon we have seen before, where someone gains access to buildings and restricted spaces to take photographs of themselves, often hanging in precarious poses.
Yongning, 26, was one of these daredevils and had amassed more than a million followers on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.
He had posted more than 300 clips of himself standing or dangling off tall buildings without any safety harnesses, and his followers reportedly grew concerned after he didn’t post anything for a month.
It turns out he had fallen to his death on November 8, but the incident was kept private until last Friday, when his girlfriend wrote online:
“Today is December 8th. It makes me think of November 8th, the day you left us and left this world.”
Watch the incident below – it’s not for sensitive viewers:
Although details about the challenge and sponsor remains unclear, Yongning’s uncle, Feng Shengliang, said his nephew had “planned to use the prize money to marry his girlfriend and to pay his mother’s medical bills”.
To say goodbye, here’s a selection of stunts the rooftopper had previously undertaken:
RIP.
[source:businessinsider]
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