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Heart-stopping Edinburgh clip shows teens attempt to scale Forth Road Bridge

A nail-biting clip has been shared of two teens attempting to scale the Edinburgh Forth Road Bridge.

The footage has been released of the parkour team attempting the hair-raising stunt ahead of a documentary into their lives which will be aired later this summer.

Following the lives of Guidlford-based Rikke Brewer and best mate Aidan Knox, the feature will show how the young pair have taken on the dangerous hobby in the hope of finding fame.

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As well as taking on monuments such as the Forth Road Bridge, the pair have also attempted to scale the Severn Bridge and other sites around the world.

According to the Record, the Off the Rails documentary will be aired at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on August 18 and Vue Cinema on August 19, with viewers set to have their hearts in their mouths.

Also including a Q&A with the documentary's director, Peter Day, guests will watch Rikke and Aidan try stunts that include riding trains in the Paris Metro and London Tube, climbing Berlin’s TV Tower and more.

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It also includes frank interviews with the pair as they open up on the trauma of a close friend’s death, broken families and fragile mental health, as well as the dangers of some of the stunts they have pulled over their decade-long career.

The director of the film, Peter Day, said: “I first encountered Rikke’s YouTube videos in 2016. It got me thinking that we scroll through hundreds of YouTube videos, always looking for a more daring stunt, never having any emotional investment in the people behind these extreme feats of athleticism and recklessness.

“I got sweaty palms looking at the videos on my 3 inch phone screen and I wondered what it would be like to see it blown up on a 30 foot screen instead. I wanted to take something we experience privately to an event we consume publicly at the cinema.

“Rikke and Aidan are hugely creative storytellers in their own right. I think authority figures have a tendency to write people off, to their detriment. But I have a belief in the limitless potential of people.”

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