14 DAY TRIAL // It's a fact that selfies are becoming more and more popular nowadays and everybody seems to be competing to take the best selfie and post it on social media. But a new selfie trend appears to be developing right now, and it might be the most dangerous of all: scaling tall structures and snapping self-portrait photographs.
We've seen a lot of daredevils who love to take insane selfies from extreme heights, and now we get to know one more: London-based photographer Lee Thompson.
While he was in Rio de Janeiro to cover the World Cup, Thompson managed to convince the Brazilian tourist board to let him scale the iconic Christ The Redeemer statue. And while he was at the top of the city's landmark he couldn't miss the opportunity to snap a picture of himself.
As a photographer, the 31-year-old man says his job is to take the shots, not star in them, but when he got the chance to take the world’s first selfie with Jesus, he simply couldn’t resist. And honestly, the result is quite impressive.
Documenting his experience on his travel company's website (TheFlashPack.co.uk), Thompson explained that he and partner Oliver Harvey entered through scaffolding mounted on the statue's feet “and crawled in circles up 12 flights of rickety stairs that seemed to get narrower with every step.”
It took them almost half an hour to reach the peak of the 130-foot (40-meter) high statue, but it was all worth it, as the British man confessed.
“As I popped my head out of the hole in Jesus’ crown, I was in total and utter awe as my eyes met with a vast panorama that quite literally took my breath away,” he said.
If you have the stomach for it, you can watch the dizzying video of Thompson's journey to the top of the monument below.
