Russian climber for high jumps

Onlookers watched in amazement as a man scaled this 180ft pylon — and performed acrobatics in teeming rain.

The nimble climber balanced on one leg and went through a routine of chin-ups and squats.



At one stage he gripped the 400,000-volt electricity cables — but the power had been switched off to the pylon in a country park in Pitsea, Essex.

The man, a Russian national, was talked down and led to safety.

He was detained under the Mental Health Act.