A man casts a shadow on the sidewalk while walking past cherry trees in full bloom in downtown Vancouver, B.C., on Monday April 9, 2012. The city is home to more than 40,000 cherry trees with most blooming in the month of April. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
A ski patroller makes first tracks as he plows though the snow during a powder day off of the Peak Chair on Whistler mountain in Whistler, B.C., April 4, 2012. The ski resort has seen 74 cm of fresh snow in the past 48 hours and has had a total cumulative snowfall of 1343 cm to date for the season.
Terrifyingly high above the streets of Toronto, Tom Ryaboi peers out at the city in front of him. Dangerous and daring, the growing craze of 'Rooftopping' photography takes place hundreds of feet above the streets. A dedicated few 'Rooftoppers' are determined to climb to the top of every skyscraper roof in their city, hang off the edge and photograph the evidence as proof. Avoiding security, CCTV and risking their lives on top of the windy ledges up to almost 1000 feet high. One of the most notable exponents of this growing movement is Toronto resident Tom Ryaboi, 27, who has climbed over 100 buildings and produced some of the most stunning examples of Rooftopping to date.
Yorkville, Toronto. Ryaboi was sitting and talking with a fellow rooftopper when he turned around and snapped this.
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Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Yonge Street, Toronto. A rooftopper lines up a view with his camera. In the distance below is Yonge Street looking north from Dundas.
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
First Canadian Place (or the BMO Building), Toronto. “Probably the least dangerous ... I was looking for a foreground subject and that (blue) line was just leading into the city beautifully.”
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
University and Adelaide, Toronto. “For this one I had to do a lot of stair climbing. Then keeping the person still for, I think it was 20 seconds, was really difficult.”
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Financial District, KPMG building, Toronto. “My scariest moment happened just after I took this shot ... There was a moment when I thought, ‘This is it, I'm not going to survive.'”
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
A fellow rooftopper scales an open structure.
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Tom Ryaboi/Barcroft Media /Landov
Sgt, Renay Groves, from St. John's, Nfld., 21 Electronic Warfare Regiment, sheds a tear during the last Remembrance Day ceremony at Kandahar Air Field Friday, November 11, 2011 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
For a guy who so rarely shows emotions, these photos of Stephen Harper cracking up really are something else... (click to view larger)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seen in a series of pictures laughing as he listens to speeches during a retirement party for former Conservative MP Jay Hill in Fort St. John, B.C., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. (The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, holds a tissue next to his wife Laureen Harper, left, as they attend the state funeral of late NDP leader Jack Layton at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Saturday, August 27, 2011. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)
A fan eats an ice cream in the bleachers at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ont. prior to CFL regular season action between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Canada Day Friday, July 1, 2011. (The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese)
Long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) dance around each other in large groups on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszafured, 150km east of Budapest, early evening on June 13, 2011. The larvae live under water for three years, and then millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during 'Tiszaviragzas' or Tisza blooming season from late spring to early summer every year. The species was once widespread across Europe, but now have disappeared on the a large part of the continent. AFP PHOTO / PETER KOHALMI
Canadian army soldiers sun bathe in Seprwan Ghar forward fire base the Panjwai district of Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 22, 2011. Canada will end its combat role in Afghanistan by the end of July, after nearly ten years fighting in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Riot police walk in the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their hockey team the Vancouver Canucks lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. (Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images)
