Balancing on the edge... in the arms

Young adventurer and stuntman Scott Young loves to stand on his hands on the edge of tall buildings and other similar dangerous places. This guy travels the world a lot, literally living on the edge. A native of the English city of Basingstoke performs his incredible stunts at a height of almost 150 meters without any insurance.

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1. Scott climbs onto the roofs of buildings and does a handstand without any belay or ropes. All this he shoots on a camera attached to his leg.

2. “When doing a handstand, you need to focus on the ground in front of your eyes to keep your balance. If the ground is nearby, great, but I have to look from a huge height, so I try to block in my head the fact that the ground is many meters away from me.

3. "It's more of a mental challenge - you need to focus on what you're doing, not what might happen."

4. Scott has already stood on his hands on buildings in three different countries - in the UK, China and India.

5. Scott last filmed his stunts on a 20-story ruined building in Delhi, India. “We were in India and I thought “why not”? It was scary, but I'm confident in my body and what I can do."

6. “This trick was more technical because this fence was no wider than my thumb. Besides, if I had fallen, I would most likely have died, and my mother would have killed me because of this scandal.”

7. Scott also managed to visit China, namely in Shanghai, where he balanced on the roof of a 40-story skyscraper at a height of 146 m.

8. “Even my teammates wanted me to put on insurance, but I knew I could manage without it.” Scott's mother is so afraid of her son's "hobby" that she refuses to look at photos and videos of her son taken during his extreme experiments.

9. “She was very upset when I showed her the first video, so I stopped doing it, in the sense of showing her the video.”

10. Scott has been freerunning since he was 15, and he even appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man.

11. “Yes, I got injured. He sprained the ligaments of his shoulder, but these are more likely injuries from the monotonous repetition of the same movements than from falls.

12. “My most serious injury was a sprained ankle when I landed badly on a mat during a movie premiere. The irony is that if I had landed on concrete, I would have rolled over and stood up as if nothing had happened.”