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" People have been climbing buildings for fun for at least a hundred years, but the sport of urban climbing has exploded in popularity over the past few years. This whole thing closely follows the adoption curve of YouTube and increasingly small video cameras, which when combined allow someone to transform scaling a city&amp;#039;s infrastructure from a transitory act performed in front of an audience of hundreds into a vivid first-person simulation that millions of people can experience in vertigo-inducing high definition. The closest thing this new generation of daredevils has to a rock star is Mustang Wanted, a pseudonymous twentysomething climber from Ukraine who recently released a YouTube clip of himself dangling from skyscrapers, cranes, antennas, and just about any other kind of unreasonably tall structure you can find in cities, with a nonchalance that will thoroughly blow the mind of anyone who isn&amp;#039;t abnormally unafraid of heights. It quickly became the latest of his efforts to go globally viral. As an acrophobe who can barely handle a rooftop party, I find getting through his new video without hitting pause -- all one-minute-and-45 seconds of it -- to be a real achievement. But I also find it oddly addictive. I&amp;#039;ve watched it dozens of times now.      Driven by this weird fascination \u2014 and the fact that Kiev is currently too on-fire to be climbable \u2014 I reached out to Mustang Wanted and I asked him a few questions about his death-defying hobby. He really didn&amp;#039;t want to talk about the unrest over there, so we mostly talked about jumping on stuff. Could you tell me a little about yourself and what you do when you&amp;#039;re not climbing buildings? I don&amp;#039;t like to talk about myself to strangers. It&amp;#039;s enough that they see me in the pictures and videos. But nonetheless I enjoy reading, climbing, shooting video and everything. When did you start climbing? What inspired you to start? I started a long time ago. I can not say exactly when. I was inspired by a lot of love. How do you go about deciding which structures to climb? Has it ever gotten you in trouble with the police? Problems with the police were there, but I will not tell you the details. It didn&amp;#039;t lead to anything. There are many urban explorers who do dangerous stunts \u2014 to explore the city from the top or under the ground. If I talk about how I got on any object, protection around that object becomes stronger and smarter, and the other guys there will have a more difficult time. Some of the objects I choose. Some are accidents. When you&amp;#039;re hanging from the side of a skyscraper or walking across a crane, what goes through your mind? Is it peaceful? Exciting? Do you ever feel nervous or scared? I do not get scared during stunts. Usually it is a cheerful mood. Sometimes I just think about something else. About salad, my cat, about anything.       I notice that in some of your videos you&amp;#039;re wearing headphones. What kind of music do you like to listen to when you&amp;#039;re climbing? I like classical music. Sometimes I listen to Offspring. I have a pretty serious fear of heights. What do you think the best way would be to get over it? Maybe I could teach you how to not be afraid of heights. But it can kill you. So I will not do it. From what I can tell from YouTube it seems like urban free climbing, parkour, and other things of that nature are particularly popular in Ukraine. Why do you think that is? I think it is popular all over the world. People always need to show off. All that is dangerous, scary and causes disturbance catches their eye. People like to watch others take risks. The Coliseum with gladiators is a good example.      (Mustang Wanted stressed to me that what he does is incredibly dangerous, and he strongly recommends you don&amp;#039;t try to repeat his stunts yourself. That seems like sound advice. But do what you want. We&amp;#039;re not your parents.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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