Death of Man in Skyscraper Fall in China Puts a Spotlight on ‘Rooftopping’<br />That was when, the police in China now confirm, Mr. Wu fell to his death from the top of the Huayuan Hua Center, a building<br />more than 60 stories high, in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, Chinese media reports said recently.<br />For months, Wu Yongning had climbed towers and buildings high above the streets of cities in China,<br />turning a camera on himself as he teetered on ledges or clutched an antenna with one hand.<br />“By climbing on high buildings without taking any safety measures, Wu put himself in danger and pushed himself to his limits, but<br />that does not mean what he did is a sport,” a report in the China Daily said on Tuesday.<br />Daniel Cheong, 55, a professional cityscape photographer who lives in Dubai, home of some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, said<br />that when he moved to the emirate in 2008 there was a small, informal group of rooftoppers who found each other on social media through their photographs.<br />Mr. Cheong, who has a photography business in Dubai through which he gains access to rooftops legally, said<br />that he has been on roofs as high as 100 floors up, fixing his camera equipment to a safety leash.
