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... Why... How... I... What. I need some background. Why in the world would you put yourself in that kind of danger?
It’s most likely an optical illusion.
Ex.
The first image is some Instagram photos and the second image is a different person bouldering
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photograph-cliff-hanger-isnt-quite-seems/
There's no set of the hanging effect and the long distance together, but it's a pretty common rock that people take these forced perspective photos on.
The coastline, buildings and boulder appear to be the same, the images are just reversed.