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Astonishing photographs of Russian teens atop some or Russia’s highest buildings and structures, without safety equipment, receive international attention.

Marat Dupri/Caters News Agency

I never considered myself acrophobic until today when I saw the story of 19-year-old Russian student Marat Dupri reported in the Daily News.

The risk-taking teenager bought a camera over a year ago and started  taking these astoundingly beautiful and down right scary photographs of his friends posturing on several high-reaching fabrications in Moscow.

Dupri tried to give reason as to why he risks his life to take the picture, telling the Mail, “I began by taking pictures from my own roof, but soon I wanted to get bigger and better pictures,”

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 Dupri/Caters News Agency

“So I went with my friend to the top of a 33-story building … 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.”

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Marat Dupri/Caters News Agency

The young daredevils started carefully avoiding their local police and ascending the massively high buildings.   It must be noted that they do not use any safety equipment of any kind.

Although the pictures are beautiful and works of art, I think the risks they are taking is too great for a such an incredible shot. 

Then again, maybe they know something I don’t know, as they haven’t fallen to their deaths, yet.