Snapshots from the dizzying heights of Dubai

The Daily Mail ^ | 4 July 2012

[MinorityRepublican]

These are the dizzying pictures of Dubai taken from on top of the tallest skyscrapers in the world by a daredevil Russian teenager.

Student Marat Dupri has made it it his mission to scale the highest buildings he can find before dangling precariously over their edges to take his extraordinary shots.

The fearless 19-year-old, who only bought his first camera just two years ago, started by sneaking past guards and climbing on to the roofs of Moscow landmarks, before setting his sights even higher - on Dubai's towering structures.

Sky walking: Dubai's extravagant hotels lie far below the photographer, surrounded by wide expanses of desert

[yldstrk]

I think Tom Cruise did that too...............

[rabidralph]

I think I see a 7-11 down there.

[Doogle]

target

[the invisib1e hand]

they can do that cuz muslims don’t fly planes into their own building.

[cripplecreek]

Funny how they have money for cap like that but we fight their wars for them.

[Carriage Hill]

Someone fire-up a drone, max-loaded with C4.

[Carriage Hill]

Amazing what a few trillion worth of Western Dollars/Various Currencies can do in the ME, isn’t it?

[Hotlanta Mike]

[cripplecreek]

They get our money and our military and we get their enemies.

Iran is talking about mining the Strait of Hormuz (with Russian and Chinese mines) yet we just granted a waiver to China so they can sidestep our sanctions and buy Iranian gas.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[kingu]

If I held any property in Dubai, I'd be trying to unload it as fast as possible, at any price. You have an economy built on other people stopping by with their economies - that's unsustainable, mostly because you've nothing to back it up with - no big deep water port, no useful transfer points. No useful overland routes as well. You literally depend upon people stopping in and leaving boatloads of cash.

And we already know how well this works, as Dubai has already been bailed out by it's Arab neighbors. And it's set to be bailed out yet again, with probably a third bailout to follow along as well.

Massive amounts of cash to build monuments to hubris. And that story has been played out time and time again...and it never ends well.

[yldstrk]

yeah he is an insane person

[Huskrrrr]

they can do that cuz muslims don’t fly planes into their own building.”

LOL. Don’t give me any ideas.

[umgud]

Nobody in the pool.

[beethovenfan]

Must be prayer time.

[itsahoot]

Massive amounts of cash to build monuments to hubris.

The pyramids worked out well, still producing income from fools trying to figure out how and why. Hubris indeed.

[autumnraine]

Dubai really does have some beautiful architecture.

[cripplecreek]

Piles of rock stand a long time.

I give these buildings 100 years at best.

[autumnraine]

Damn, that picture made my hands sweat!