Skyscraper Daredevil Insanity Potential ?

His name is Oleg Sherstyachenko. He’s a Russian daredevil who is certifiably crazy, based on his past videos and photos showing him doing handstands on the edges of buildings or walking and climbing things at dizzying heights.
His latest insanity involves doing parkour by leaping from ledge to ledge on a 43-story skyscraper in Dubai without a safety net.
The Q, a GQ blog, used this headline to introduce the video: “Silly Man With Death Wish Does ‘Parkour’ on a Skyscraper.” Sherstyachenko, meanwhile, introduced the video on Instagram by saying, “Clear your mind. Just relax.”
Yeah, just relax:

“I was not afraid to do this because at the height I feel like a bird in the air,” he told Daily Mail. “I just enjoy life, just live, and do video and pictures for other people.”
When the Daily Mail asked if he knew that one misstep meant certain death, Sherstyachenko replied, “Yeah, sure.”
Oleg Cricket, as he goes by on Tumblr and Instagram, wrote that he rode the elevator of the Sofitel Hotel to the 37th floor and took the stairs to the roof where he snapped several photos before spontaneously doing his parkour stunt, taking five giant leaps from ledge to ledge.

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Oleg Sherstyachenko walks along the roof just over the ledges in which he performed his parkour stunt. Photo: Oleg Sherstyachenko’s Instagram account

“Everything happened without incident,” he wrote in broken English on Tumblr. “I did a little more shots on the balcony and constantly thinking for a few seconds, I roughly counted how many steps I fit on every balcony, I pressed the shutter button the camera moved back, gasped and ran.”
Afterward he climbed back onto the roof and was escorted off by hotel security.
“I was very surprised to thank them once again for a great warm welcome,” he wrote. “That this was one of the memorable moments in life.”
Emphasis on life.
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