| Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov | ||||||||||
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 One of their members on the Shanghai Tower in 2014 | ||||||||||
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| Nationality | Russian / Ukrainian | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2011-present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.27 million (November 2024) | |||||||||
| Total views | 147.6 million (November 2024) | |||||||||
| Website | ontheroofs.com | |||||||||
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Last updated: November 2024 | ||||||||||
Ontheroofs is an urban exploration and rooftopping photography project conceived by Vitaliy Raskalov (Russian: Виталий Раскалов) and Vadim Makhorov (Russian: Вадим Махоров), from Ukraine and from Russia respectively. Their main focus of photography is the exploration of high-rise architectural structures like skyscrapers, bridges, historic sites and cathedrals. The team have been notable for their number of free-climbs up famous buildings and monuments around the world. Typically, their videos are uploaded onto YouTube and showcase their ascent and descent. Raskalov and Makhorov appeared as recurring cast in the documentary series URBEX – Enter At Your Own Risk, which launched globally on Red Bull TV on August 1, 2016.
Members
The project was conceived by Vitaliy Raskolov. Raskolov grew up in Kyiv, but at the age of 12, he moved to Moscow, where he would later study journalism, but drop out in 2009 to become a photographer. He met Makhorov, who is from Novosibirsk, while climbing a bridge. In 2017, Raskalov and Makhorov expanded the team to include the New-York based rooftopper Emit, known as em.1t across social media platforms.
Climbs
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In 2012, the duo climbed the Mercury City Tower in Moscow.
Raskalov and Makhorov received press attention in early 2014 when they climbed up the Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world. They entered the construction site of the unfinished tower during the Lunar New Year. The popularity of the video sparked a discussion on the safety and the liability of the incident. Later in 2014, they hijacked an LED billboard on the roof of a Hong Kong building, advertising their Shanghai climb on the billboard.
In April 2016, a video was posted of them climbing the Lotte World Tower in Seoul. Despite the construction site having guard dogs, security officers and monitoring drones, Raskalov and Makhorov managed to bypass the security and climb the under construction building.
In 2017, Raskolov and Emit climbed the Central Park Tower. Other structures climbed by Raskolov are the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramid of Giza and the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
In 2019, they Travelled to the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Southern Kazakhstan In the former Soviet Union and uploaded the video of it to their youtube channel.
References
- ^ "About ontheroofs". YouTube.
- ^ "The Story Behind That Insane Shanghai Tower Climb". The Huffington Post. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016.
- "Новосибирец продал две фотографии за 650 тысяч рублей". ngs.ru (in Russian). 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- ^ "The daredevil climber risking his life for the world's best views". Huck Magazine. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- "Five Russian daredevils climb Europe's tallest building (video)". www.digitaljournal.com. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- "Russian daredevils scale the Shanghai Tower, China's new tallest building". The Guardian. 13 February 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016.
- Two Chinese Guys Copied That Insane Shanghai Tower Climb.
- Euan McKirdy (18 October 2014). "On the Roofs climbers scale new heights". CNN. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- Gazeta, Rossiyskaya (12 April 2016). "Russian roofers climb Seoul's Lotte Tower".
- "The tallest building of New-York* | ontheroofs". Retrieved 2021-04-17.