Rooftopping: scary new travel photography craze

Anyone who suffers from vertigo - look away now.

Rooftopping, a new heart-stopping photography craze, is sweeping the globe, and creating amazing pictures from the top of the world.

It involves heading to the world's tallest buildings, creeping up to the side, and then hanging off the edge to get wow-factor photos.

Travel photographer Tom Ryaboi has spent his life chasing the perfect high-rise image. He told the Daily Mail: 'When you climb to the top of a skyscraper and open its hatch for the first time, a pure rush of adrenaline hits you as you overlook the city from above.

'There is a group of very dedicated individuals who will not rest until they are able to stand on every roof in the city and call it theirs, even if it's just for a minute or two.'

Tom, who's awe-inspiring pics of Toronto are really putting Rooftopping on the map, added: 'To this day my father often likes to tell the story of when he came home for work one day, my mother was already at home, and I was sitting on top of the fridge looking down on both of them.

'I was almost two years old then and they are still trying to figure out how I got up there. Here I am, 25 years later, still trying to sit on top of the tallest things I see.

'It is quite addictive, standing on top of the world, but there is something more. There is really only one way to find out what that is... I urge you to get on a roof and discover it for yourself.'

Er, we're not so sure about that! Looks too dangerous for the likes of us. But we're loving the pics.

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