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Parkour Nuts Conquer the Dizzying Heights of Paris
There are at least three close calls with death in this hair-raising video.
Parkour experts and their buildering brethren often swear their stomach-turning stunts high above the ground are controlled and not exactly dangerous. Still, it’s hard to resist some inner gasping watching this footage from Paris, in which a pair of urban athletes leap across alleys and dodge ventilation shafts leading to the black abyss.