Meet The Real Life Sky Walker

On top of the world: Daring photographer scales sky-high buildings to take stomach-churning shots of the Earth below,

Meet the real-life sky walker - the photographer who risks his life scaling sky-high buildings to take incredible photos of the world below.

Russian student Marat Dupri, 19, bought a Canon camera 18 months ago and immediately decided to start taking shots of beautiful views.

He began climbing onto the roofs of houses to capture spectacular views from the air, before deciding to go to even greater heights.

Together with his fearless friends and models, he has sneaked past guards at some of Moscow's tallest structures - to produce incredible yet stomach-churning images.

Scared of heights? Russian student Marat Dupri doesn't seem to be, as he photographs amazing views from sky-high structures around Moscow

The incredible photos show the teens walking in the sky, as they perch hundreds of feet in the air on pylons, or walking on the edge of a high building with NO safety harnesses.

Marat said: ‘When I am on the roof I have a feeling that the whole world is by my feet.

‘All my problems and trouble are left somewhere down. The height exhilarates me. I am enjoying with my home town views. It gives me energy and fills with enthusiasm to make new and great shots.

 

‘I had always been interested in photography and a couple of years ago,  I bought my first proper camera.

‘I wanted to try and get the most spectacular pictures I could - pictures like no-one else had taken before.

‘I began by taking pictures from my own roof, but soon I wanted to get bigger and better pictures.

Quick learner: Dupri only bought his Canon camera 18 months ago but seems to be getting into the swing of using it and finding artistic inspiration

‘So I went with my friend to the top of a 33 storey building.  It was about 120 metres high and we went right out to the edge and I started taking pictures.

‘It was such a thrill, we couldn't wait to do it again.

‘I've taken a lot of the photos by sneaking past guards and getting access to structures illegally.

‘But I think the risks are worth it to take such amazing pictures.’

Marat's incredible pictures show several of his friends balancing on the very edge of beams hundreds of feet above the ground.

They are not attached to any safety harnesses and could plummet to earth at any time.

Desperate measures: Dupri says he has sneaked past guards to get access to structures illegally, but says it was worth every risk

One photo shows the teens scaling one of Russia's seven Soviet skyscrapers, using a ladder to scale the side of the building.

And another shows his friend perched at the side of a monument to Peter I, 215 metres in the air.

The teens even took photos on the top of the Moscow tower - one of the highest buildings in Europe.

Marat added: ‘The building is 300 metres up in the air and it was really difficult to take photos because of the wind. I had to bend right over and just take a picture straight down.

‘That was the most dangerous photo I have taken, it was pretty scary.

‘I've also taken pictures from a 270 metre high radio mast that was still in use.

‘I got a huge adrenalin rush from taking the pictures, but I had a severe headache for several days after - I think it was from radiation.

‘It was worth it to get such amazing photos though.’

Higher and higher: The student says 'I began by taking pictures from my own roof, but soon I wanted to get bigger and better pictures'

Ice magic: The photographer who finds spectacular beauty in Earth's melting polar caps

These magical pictures capture the ethereal and otherworldly beauty of the melting ofJokulsarlon - the largest glacial lagoon in Iceland.

The stunning natural wonder is made up of strange ice formations that change constantly in response to the temperature.

From June to September each year the frozen glacier begins to melt - which gives the lagoon and its ice islands a haunting life of its own

Serene: Jokulsarlon Lagoon is the largest melting lagoon in Iceland. Thanks to global warming the incredibly beautiful nine mile-long fresh water lake has nearly doubled in size

Ethereal: Taken at midnight at the Jokulsarlon Lagoon, photographer Alexandre Deschaumes said the light gives an otherworldly feel to the images

Adventurous photographer, Alexandre Deschaumes, 28, from the French Alps is so in love with the lagoon that he has spent three years visiting it during the melting season.

He said: 'I felt inspired by the otherworldly feeling and original beauty of this place,

'There is a truly fascinating balance of the surreal, desolate, but still completely elegant and mesmerising landscape. I wanted to see some dark and inspiring landscape.'

 

Thanks to global warming the incredibly beautiful nine mile-long fresh water lake of Jokulsarlon has nearly doubled in size - in 1975 it used to be only five miles-long.

Mr Deschaumes said: 'My quest was to reveal and show the world that this kind of atmosphere and places exists, and maybe trying to open a 'new door' of imagination and dreams.

'It is important for me that, through my work, people can realise how amazing nature is - that places like this really exist.

'As people become inspired by this beauty, maybe they would like to be more careful with the environment.'

Beautiful: Adventurous photographer Alexandre Deschaumes positions his camera to create these magical pictures in Iceland at night

Melting: A mix of still ice and moving ice is captured as the glaciers begin to melt creating a haunting effect

The London Eye

It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye.

Each rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning a capsule travels at a stately 26cm per second,
or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour - twice as fast as a tortoise sprinting; allowing passengers to step on
and off without the wheel having to stop.

You can see around 40KM (25 miles) from the top as far as Windsor Castle on a clear day.

Each of the 32 capsules weighs 10 tonnes.
To put that figure into perspective, it's the same weight as 1,052,631 pound coins!

THE MALDIVES...!!!!!

   

Just likeBora Bora, the Maldives is another tropical paradise that feels like a fantasy world. Hundreds of lush islands, lined with the whitest sandy beaches, and surrounded by the bluest of water; the Malvides is a slice of heaven. Check out the beautiful photographs below along with information on the world's lowest country with the 'lowest high point' in the world. Enjoy!

- The Maldives, officially Republic of Maldives, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls stretching in a north-south direction. It stands in the Laccadive Sea, 402 km (250 mi) south-west of India
- The chain of islands is an archipelago, which are in reality the tops of a vast undersea mountain range in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The atolls of the Maldives encompass a territory spread over roughly 90,000 square km (34,750 sq miles), making it one of the most dispersed countries in the world in geographic terms
- It features 1,192 islands, of which two hundred are inhabited. The Republic of Maldives's capital and largest city is Malé, with a population of 103,693 (as of 2006)
- The Maldives are the smallest Asian country in both population and land area. With an average ground level of 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) above sea level, it is the lowest country on the planet. It is also the country with the lowest highest point in the world, at 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in)

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