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Sweaty Palms II

By 6000 | 6000 | May 4, 2012

Twenty months have passed since I gave you this video of some young gentlemen doing some pull ups. From a crane. Several million metres above Paris. Now, it appears that the Russian youth are at it as well. According to PetaPixel: If you’re afraid of heights you may want to look away, and you should [...]

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They climbed the Shard!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 9, 2012

SilentUK are at it again and Brian Micklethwait will love this one: This time they’re going up the 72 floors (plus the crane on the top) of The Shard in London – and they’ve got another bunch of spectacularly beautiful photos from the top. Go see. Go see now.

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Silent UK on tour

By 6000 | 6000 | April 1, 2012

Please take the time to check out another post from Silent UK: This taken on the Port Vell Aerial Tramway in Barcelona

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Brian is back again, but he’s still not a Real Photographer

By 6000 | 6000 | March 30, 2012

I was delighted to note that Brian Micklethwait, my favourite UK blogger, had decided to end another of his self-imposed hiatuses (hiatii?) and start up his regular blogging again. And so far this week, we’ve had a couple of wonderful photos [here and here] of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic sculpture, a Shard update from the 1950s and a [...]

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Bollards. Bollards of London.

By 6000 | 6000 | March 23, 2012

Kaboom. Every now and again, there comes a time when we discover something so utterly amazing that we have to immediately share it with you, the esteemed readership of 6000 miles… This is one of those times. Because I have discovered a site devoted entirely to bollards in London, handily entitled “Bollards of London“. Yes, [...]

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