Russian height-hanger Kirill Oreshkin and like-minded friend.
Sick men.
Tag Archives: height
Pantury
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Average Guys
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The average American, Japanese, Dutch and French male (l-r, top two pix) – drawing on official data from CDC (US), e-stat (Japan), RIVM (Netherlands) and ENNS (France) and Illustrated by The Feed’s Nickolay Lamm.
USA: 29 BMI, 176.4 cm height, 99.4 cm waist
Japan: 23.7 BMI, 171.4 cm height, 82.9 cm waist
Netherlands: 25.2 BMI, 183.3 cm height , 91 cm waist
France: 25.55 BMI, 174.4 cm height, 92.3 cm waist
Much as you’d expect, really.
(Pic: WHO 2008 data)
Look Down
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fs0hkdJzk8
James Kingston’s bowel-liquidising POV footage of himself scaling a 315-foot-tall crane in Southampton then hanging from the top by one hand – in the style of the undisputed Russian boss of one-hand hanging Mustang-Wanted.
In his MinutePhysics spinoff MinuteEarth, Harry Reich examines the theoretical maximum height of mountains and why none of them are actually that high.
The adventures of Russian daredevil, Mustang-Wanted who – among other insane hobbies – likes to hang from the side of tall buildings with one hand.
National Geographic Photographer Joe McNally got permission (after three years of patient negotiation with the skyscraper’s administrator) to climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and take this shot of the city beneath his shoes during Gulf Photo Plus 2013. Sez he:
My old battered shoes climbed the worlds tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from 820 meters straight up!
(Pix: Joe McNally, Nicolas Lannuzel [Burj profile] and Wikimedia Commons [graph])
YOU decide.
Colm King Suggests:
I’d say it’s a margin of 60/40.
Paul Murphy MEP and Simon Coveney on de telly earlier.
