urban exploration
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Idiots Climb The Eiffel Tower For Laughs
The Eiffel Tower is the most famous and one of the most heavily-guarded structures in Paris. For a fee you can hang out inside of it, but its upper reaches are not legally accessible to the public. So three Russian daredevils decided to scale it anyway, without safety equipment, while being filmed by a drone.…
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17-Year-Old Climbed NYC’s Tallest New Building And Took These Photos
We’ve watched the future tallest residential building in America grow from a mere rendering into an almost-complete building over the past three years. 432 Park Avenue is now a prime target for the growing number of daredevils who climb forbidden or abandoned structures and bring back photos as proof — and now, a 17-year-old urban…
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Explore 5000km Of Tunnels Beneath Montreal
Andrew Emond, a Montreal-based photographer, amateur geographer and DIY gonzo spelunker of the city’s sewers and lost rivers, has just re-launched his excellent website, Under Montreal. The revamped site now comes complete with a fascinating, interactive map of the city’s subterranean streams, documenting Montreal’s invisible rivers for all to see.
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A 5-Minute Journey Down A Manhole In New York
“It’s dead quiet, and you feel like you’re the last man on earth. That’s incredibly rare in New York,” says urban explorer Steve Duncan. Filmmaker Jon Kasbe followed Duncan — who many of you might recognise from 2011’s Undercity — down a sewer for the short film, A Beautiful Waste, released in July.