The 29-year-old with a head for heights describes himself as an 'educated balancing performer', and has been honing his death-defying skills since the age of five, with circus troupes around the globe.
Naked save for a skin-coloured thong, Eskil rides a bike - backwards and upside down - 1000m over a Norwegian fjord. Strong, cold winds added to the extreme nature of the stunt
'A stunt is something you see in movies, often done with mattresses safety lines or nets,' says Eskil.
'What I do, is draw a picture with vulnerable human beings and their bodies, in the surrounding of mother earth.
Again back in a skin-tight leotard and surrounded by mist, Eskil balances on a chair, on a pole, on a rock wedged between two cliff faces
Eskil Rønningsbakken takes it to the extreme with his mountainbike, balancing on the edge of Trollveggen in Norway with no support or safety measures, 1400 meters of air between him and certain death.
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