The couple that climbed to the highest of the Empire State Constructing in New York Metropolis earlier this week is perhaps acquainted to Netflix subscribers.
The duo, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, are a pair identified for his or her excessive climbing stunts. On this explicit one, they ascended to the very prime of the spire of the skyscraper and waved a flag that learn “When the facility of affection beats the love of energy the world is aware of peace.” In a sequence of images they posted to Instagram, in addition they revealed that they acquired engaged whereas excessive atop the constructing on an itty bitty platform.
In case you acknowledge Beerkus and Nikolau, that is perhaps since you noticed their 2024 Netflix documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story. Netflix describes it as “Half romance, half thriller, this movie follows a daredevil couple as they take their relationship to terrifying new heights in a wild scheme to climb the world’s second highest skyscraper and carry out a death-defying stunt on the spire.”
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As romantic as a proposal 1,450 ft within the air might sound, the aftermath wasn’t precisely the stuff of desires. The couple, who apparently stay in New Jersey, was arrested following the stunt and booked on quite a few fees, together with housebreaking, reckless endangerment, felony mischief, and disorderly conduct.
Deadline stories that whereas the incident was lined broadly on cable information, the stunt was not filmed for some new Netflix sequence or movie. (A good factor to surprise; earlier this 12 months, Netflix aired a program known as Skyscraper Stay during which famed free solo climber Alex Honnold scaled a scraper in Taipei and not using a security rope.)
Skywalkers: A Love Story remains to be streaming on Netflix, by the best way.
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