A daredevil ‘rooftopper’ unwittingly filmed his own death in the Chinese city of Changsha, as he lost his grip while doing pull-ups for a video stunt and fell from the top of a 62-story skyscraper, South China Morning Post reports.
The dramatic fall of former film stuntman, Wu Yongning, 26, was caught on a camera he had set up himself to capture the exploit on video, the Daily Mail reports.
The chilling footage shows Wu climb over the edge and attempt to do pull-ups with no safety equipment, fingertips clutching the rooftop flange.
The video-blogging stuntman then loses his grip and drops out of view. A window cleaner, Daily Mail reports, later found his body on a terrace 45 feet below.
Wu’s girlfriend, who family members told the Post he was soon to marry, called the police a day later, on Nov. 9, to report the man missing.
Fans of the stuntman-turned-rooftopper became concerned by Wu’s prolonged absence from social media and began speculating about his fate.
The death was officially confirmed on Dec. 8 by family members, Channel NewsAsia reports, who say Wu expected to get paid around $15,000 for performing the feat.
