ANGELA Nikolau, 31, is a rooftopper and lives with her boyfriend, Ivan Beerkus, 30, in Moscow, Russia.
“Reaching the top of the spire of Merdeka 118 – the world’s second-highest skyscraper, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – my boyfriend Ivan stepped on to the thin scaffolding we’d carried with us, above the 2,227ft sheer drop.
Then he lifted me by the waist over his head while a drone captured the death-defying stunt.
It was December 2022, and after 10 weeks of intensive training, Ivan and were pushing ourselves to the limits of ‘rooftopping’, in which extreme climbers scale buildings and cranes without safety harnesses.
One wrong move and we risked certain death.
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