A participant in wingsuit flies above Tianmen Mountain at Zhangjiajie Scenic Spot during the 4th Red Bull WWL China Grand Prix on October 16, 2015 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province of China. The 4th Red Bull WWL China Grand Prix will last three days from October 16-18 in Zhangjiajie. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

China’s new tallest building has received unexpected publicity thanks to Russian free climbers Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov. The pair took two hours to climb 650 metres up the unfinished Shanghai Tower. They did not use safety equipment on their ascent to the top of a crane attached to the tower, from where they took these extraordinary pictures of Shanghai. Photo: Vitaly Raskalov's feet dangle from the top of the Shanghai Tower, high above the Shanghai World Financial Centre. (Photo by Vitaly Raskalov/Caters News Agency)

A woman works to create handmade Nepali Lokta paper in Kathmandu January 7, 2015. Lokta papers are made from the fibrous inner bark of Lokta bushes that are found over 5,000 metres above sea level. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Photographer, Baron DaParre takes a picture of young model Danette Vega below an effigy dressed as a Wall Street banker hanging from a telephone wire on October 28, 2011 in Miami, Florida. As protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protesters continue around the country an artist known as Above, created the installation which hangs above a mural that reads “Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself”. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Festival goers blow soap-bubbles at the 28th Sziget (Island) Festival on Shipyard Island, Northern Budapest, Hungary, 15 August 2022. The festival is one of the biggest cultural events of Europe offering art exhibitions, theatrical and circus performances and above all music concerts. (Photo by Marton Monus/EPA/EFE)

Swimmers in the Sky Pool, a transparent swimming pool suspended 35 meters above ground between two apartment buildings, during hot weather in Nine Elms, central London on Monday, August 12, 2024. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, visible above Old Gardur Lighthouse on the northern point of the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland on Sunday, November 24, 2024. The lighthouse dates to 1897, and was one of the first built in Iceland. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

A drone flies above World Surf League World Title winner Hawaian surfer John John Florence during the final heat of the Portuguese stage of the World Surf League championship at Supertubos beach near Peniche, central Portugal, on October 25, 2016. (Photo by Francisco Leong/AFP Photo)