In photos: When people go to the heights of danger for a 'cool' selfie.
Photograph: Wu Yongning/Weibo.
Wu Yongning had amassed a fan base that ran close to a million on social media with his extreme 'rooftopping' selfies. And that is what ended up causing his death.
He was only 26.
The Chinese rooftop climber plunged from 62-storey Huayuan Hua Centre in Changsha, China, during one of his high-rise stunts in November -- a stunt for which he had been offered 100,000 yuan ($20,000) in prize money. But his death was only discovered this month after a after a Weibo user, who identified herself as Wu's girlfriend posted about the incident.
Rooftopping and other high-risk selfie fads have been widely condemned by law enforcement agencies around the world, but that hasn't stopped people from going to extreme lengths for a selfie.
Scroll down to see how people all over the world court danger for a selfie.
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He went viral last year for shooting photographs in radioactive Fukushima without protective gear.
Photograph: @kiwikeow/Instagram.
Check out her risky selfies.
Photograph: @angela_nikolau/Instagram.
A player takes a rooftop selfie with her team mates before a football tournament in Rio de Janeiro.
Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters.
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This member of Chinese rescue team stopped to take one during an operation to rescue victims trapped inside a collapsed hotel after the 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters.
