Perched 640 feet up in the air on a line less than one inch wide, Jaan Roose battled high winds to take a slackline world record as photographer Volodya Voronin captured it all in remarkable detail.
Roose was in Doha, Qatar in June to cross the newly-opened Katara Towers at a height just slightly above that of the Seattle Space Needle. The Red Bull athlete took the world record for the longest LED slackline walk which he calls “Sparkline.”
“Anything worth achieving comes with its fair share of challenges, and I’m proud to complete this one,” says Roose. “In this case, the heat and wind conditions added a different element that I needed to react to and manage spontaneously while I was on the slackline,” he continues.
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