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James KingstonTakes Parkour to New Heights (2013)

By no means a household name, Kingston took the Internet by storm back in 2013, when he released videos of himself hanging one-handed from a crane 250 feet in the air and leaping all over the University of Cambridge’s rooftops. While there are a number of ways to define parkour, freerunning is definitely the most common of them, and Kingston, with a GoPro camera strapped to his head, showed just how thrillingly dangerous the sport can be when taken to its highest heights. When university officials blasted Kingston for creating danger not only for himself but for others, he responded, “I didn’t go up there to die; I went up there to live,” which may be the most extreme thing a human being could have said in response to such criticism.

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