shanghai tower

Vitaly Raskalov writes: “Hi everyone! I want to dilute the two-month lull in this livejournal. A few months ago, together with dedmaxopka, we planned a trip to major cities in China, from Hong Kong to Shanghai. The main goal of our trip was the tallest building in the world, the Shanghai Tower, which is currently under construction, at the moment its height, together with the crane boom, reaches a little over 650 meters, which makes the tower the second tallest structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in the UAE.

Knowing about the very strict laws in China, we carefully prepared and chose the right date, the Chinese New Year. For a time during which the guards were less vigilant, the workers were absent and the taps were not working. We made our way to the crane around midnight, climbed 120 floors for almost 2 hours on foot and slept for almost 18 hours at the construction site in anticipation of good weather. What came out of it, you can see in the new video clip.

(Total 13 photos)

Source: J:journal/raskalov-vit

1. Low clouds begin to gather over the city.

2. JinMao Tower and Shanghai Financial Center, popularly known simply as "The Opener".

3. By dawn, the clouds became even denser, and the city was completely covered.

4. For comparison, the left tower has a height of 421 meters, and the right one is 490.

5. One of the main goals of climbing the tower was to shoot a video, since there was low cloud cover in the city, it was decided to sit out on the last floors of the construction site and wait it out.

6. An hour before dawn, the clouds parted, and we climbed up.

7. Photo of me, authorship: dedmaxopka

8. 650 meters.

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13. So ended Shanghai. In the near future you will find a huge amount of interesting material from China. Stay with us!