‘I Can’t Even Look’: Death-defying daredevil shocks viewers with insane stunts on top of abandoned skyscrapers without any safety gear
- Carlos Rengifo rose to internet fame with his daredevil stunts in Venezuela
- Regarding his stunts, the 27-year-old told Univision: “Fear is like positive energy, it equals your dreams, that thing you’re looking for and want”
- His dream is to one day stunt Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world
This real-life daredevil can’t wait to test the limits – if any – on the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khlalifa Dubai.
For now, Carlos Rengifo will be content to wow his social media followers and anyone lucky enough to catch a glimpse of him in person in his native Venezuela.
The 27-year-old has been practicing death-defying stunts for 11 years now without a shred of worry.
Any fear that may exist is immediately canceled – nothing can stand in the way of achieving its ultimate goal.
“Fear is like positive energy, it equals your dreams, that thing you seek and want,” Rengifo said recently. university. “Negative energy, let’s say fear, is what paralyzes you.”
Carlos Rengifo does a backflip into an unfinished building in Caracas. The 27-year-old Venezuelan has become an internet sensation by sharing his variety of stunts – without safety equipment – in many buildings of all sizes in the South American nation.
Rengifo showed no fear as he rode his bike around the ledge of a building in Venezuela. He recently told Univision, “There’s no time to think up there because you’re supposed to train for a month or two months to go around”
Rengifo stands on the ledge of a high-rise building in Venezuela. The daredevil dreams of one day performing one of his stunts at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world
Rengifo started doing stunts on the streets of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas as a teenager before reaching much greater heights that would sink the heart of an ordinary person.
His Instagram account has viral videos showing him doing a backflip over the ledge of a building still under construction. He shows off his inner Spider-Man abilities by running up and down the side of an apartment building.
For Christmas 2022, he gave his followers a short clip of him slowly walking along the edge of another building under construction. He stopped at the corner of the street and leaned forward, catching the busy road of a town surrounded by trees with a sea of buildings on the horizon.
A short clip from October 2022 showed him riding a bicycle on the ledge of another Caracas tower.
Regarding his dangerous stunts, Carlos Rengifo told Univision: “Fear is like positive energy, it equals your dreams, that thing you seek and want”
For Christmas, Carlos Rengifo treated his Instagram followers to a view of a Venezuelan city that featured a busy road surrounded by trees with a sea of buildings on the horizon
The 27-year-old daredevil keeps his balance on the ledge of a Venezuelan skyscraper
Carlos Rengifo, a 27-year-old Venezuelan daredevil, performs a stunt on a skateboard
Rengifo’s dream is to one day perform one of his stunts at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai
A subscriber expressed doubts about the reality of the images.
“It’s edited, it’s not real,” they wrote.
Another user added, “What it’s like to have no value and appreciation for life.”
Free from the constraints of any safety equipment, the Venezuelan managed a few laps at the Torre Parque Central in Caracas, a complex that includes residential, commercial and cultural developments.
Other stunts have been successfully performed at the Torre David, an unfinished skyscraper.
In the end, anything is possible, says Rengifo, because practice makes perfect.
“There’s no time to think up there because you’re supposed to train for a month or two months to go around,” he explained. “But if you arrive at the place indicated at 60 floors, 100 floors, whatever, you have to think about what you are going to do, because if you arrive and think, you will freeze.”
