The Most Famous Roofers Of The World

No, we’re not roofers, we’re just melomaniacs…

Yes, the song by Boombox goes differently, and Word tried to change ‘roofers’ for something else.

Roofing is considered one of the types of tourism today. It is distributed mainly in large cities, where there places to climb up. The boldest and most desperate ones don’t admire the views from observation decks. They have their own observation platforms. And the higher those are situated, the more dangerous they are, the better it is.

Although the name comes from the English roof, their achievements aren’t limited by the roofs. Today, roofers have become almost heroes, as an opportunity to tell about reaching new peaks in social networks and the desire to share photos of sceneries at such angles that can’t be seen by everyone attracts a lot of attention.

Nowadays, there are even different types of roofing distinguished: the quiet, which is just walking roofs; the extreme, which is reaching some closed, inaccessible or prohibited objects; and art-roofing, which includes the activities and creating art objects on the roofs.

People speak about roofers differently. Some believe they are a subculture. Some say they are just violators of order and laws. Some call them rebels. Someone will say they are insane. Anyway, everything listed above is true.

We don’t suggest you climb to unattainable heights, but we know how to see what is happening on the earth from the top of the world.

Raskalov and his team

The guys have already seen almost half of the world from its highest peaks, even from the Statue of Liberty. They impressed the world by conquering the 650-meter-heigh skyscraper in Shanghai. Even unfinished, Shanghai Tower was classified as one of the most impressive building ever created by mankind. So, the guys have become the heroes of numerous international media, including the Rolling Stones and Telegraph. On The Roofs team makes their living selling the rights to use their impressive videos and practicing product placement.

http://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/

http://ontheroofs.com/

Mustang Wanted

Probably, everyone has heard of this ‘Ukrainian Vandal’, as he was called in some media. The roofer from Kyiv, known under the nickname ‘Mustang Wanted’, painted a star on one of the skyscrapers of the 1950s in yellow and blue colors, and put the flag of Ukraine there. A few days after this, he published a photo from the top of Moscow State University. However, flipping through photos, you can see that he has a lot more subdued peaks.

https://www.facebook.com/mustang.wanted.25/

Ievgen Lata

On this year’s Independence Day, the Ukrainian flag appeared at the highest point of Africa – Kilimanjaro. The flag was placed at the height of the 5895 meters by Ievgen Lata from Odessa – a roofer, an activist, and a volunteer. In addition, he keeps actively walking around catacombs – in Odessa, in Paris, where he has penetrated even into the forbidden parts.

Humza Deas

The roofer from New York always wanted to become a professional skater, but then he discovered an unexpected new hobby – photography. First, he took street photos and then began to explore the dungeons and rooftops in search of new angles. Today, the photographer continues to show unknown places of the American metropolis.

Daniel Lau

The Chinese roofer climbs up the skyscrapers of Hong Kong and beyond. Once he even climbed on top of The Centre skyscraper, which has 73 floors!

https://www.facebook.com/exthetics.daniel

James Kingston

The adventurer and youtuber James Kingston became the hero of one of BBC programs. Once he visited Ukraine and took a walk along some roofs here.

And yesterday he shared another video of his adventures (or better say, routine) with Mustang, already mentioned earlier. “Tag in the person you trust enough to do this with”, the roofer offers under his new Instagram video.