Carlos Rengifo
Tiene 23 años y ya lo han detenido la policía, la guardia y hasta los servicios de inteligencia. Trepado sin autorización sobre las cimas de concreto, este caraqueño se considera una suerte de Phillippe Petit de Petare.
"Muchacho, ¿tú eres loco?". La expresión la conoce bien y la ha escuchado desde hace cuatro años, cuando empezó a practicar skywalking. Su nombre es Carlos Rengifo y tiene 23 años.
Carlos es conocido como el primer venezolano y unos de los pocos en américa latina que practica una disciplina que consiste en fotografiarse en las cornisas de los edificios -haciendo acrobacias o no- sin ningún tipo de protección. La peligrosa tendencia que arrancó en Rusia lo cautivó y desde entonces le obsesiona emular las aventuras de Oleg Sherstyachenko, pero con la medalaganaria arquitectura de la capital como telón de fondo.
Practica varias horas por la noche en su casa, en Caucagüita, una zona aledaña a la carretera Petare-Guarenas. Estudió fotografía y computación pero no pudo terminar ninguna carrera por falta de dinero, así que por ahora trabaja como limpiavidrios de edificios en Caracas: "Pero es ocasional, me gusta". Claro, no sufre de vértigo.
Lo primero que tiene claro es que no puede pedir permiso para practicar su pasión. Ni siquiera en su trabajo formal se atreve a solicitarle un "chance" al supervisor para fotografiarse en el lugar porque sabe que la respuesta será negativa: "Imagínate, si me pasa algo, a quien le llaman la atención es a él".
Pero eso no le impide aventurarse a otros espacios en la ciudad. Hace apenas un mes estuvo en una de las torres de Parque Central, un emblemático edificio de 256 metros de altura que figura entre los más altos de Caracas. La travesura le salió cara.
Después de subir sin permiso hasta el piso 60 de la torre este de Parque Central, un grupo de oficiales del Servicios Bolivariano de Inteligencia (Sebin) llegó para arrestarlo a él y a los fotógrafos que lo acompañaban: "Ellos exageraron un poco porque decían que éramos terroristas. Nos trataron como unos delincuentes".
"He recibido demasiadas críticas por lo que hago, demasiados insultos, demasiadas amenazas. La gente se asusta porque es algo nuevo, pues. Creen que soy un loco que sólo está tratando de llamar la atención o que me quiero suicidar. Me da mucha rabia y por eso no he recibido ningún apoyo para representar a mi país Venezuela a través de la crisis que presenta".
"Carlos Rengifo, atleta venezolano explicó como desde los 18 años su deseo por desafiar las alturas crecía dentro de él, y esto se manifestaba en sueños donde se veía subido a la cornisa de los edificios y de allí decidió llevarlos a la realidad..."
"Hago el llamado de todas aquellas personas en steemit, que me puedan apoyar por medio de la misma ya que a lo largo de mi carrera como atleta no he recibido ningún apoyo para poder representar a mi tierra Venezuela."
Venezuelan young person defied the heights in the top of Central Park and Tower some Confinanzas
Para it is seen as a madman who risks the life in enormous buildings and for others it is a motive of admiration to the being the Venezuelan only one and one of the few ones in Latin America that practises the dangerous sport of the Skywalking, this one is Carlos Rengifo, a chamo of 23 years resident of Petare who has as dream hoist the flag of Venezuela in unimaginable heights. He confessed that more that to losing the life in a skyscraper, it is afraid of him to the intolerance as the one that lived 3 months ago on having been stopped and struck by civil servants of the Sebin by the "crime" of rising and standing firm facing the investor Parque Central.
Carlos Rengifo, Venezuelan athlete explained since from 18 years his desire for defying the heights was growing inside him, and this was demonstrating in dreams where one saw raised to the cornice of the buildings and of there it decided to take them to the reality. " I as any normal chamo was practising sports as swimming or basketball, but then I wanted to go more it has proved luck in the Parkour and freerunning where extreme displacements are realized spending obstacles, but this was not sufficient. There it was where I discovered the Skywalking and fall in love with this discipline ", he said.
Rengifo reported that it began to practise in buildings from 30 to 35 floors, doing mortal jumps in the cornisas, while it was improving his technology I decided that it was going to assume new challenges and there it was that it decided to defy the apex of the Tower Confinanzas which tiene45 floors and 190 meters of height. " Three months ago I assumed my first great challenge, since this one is the highest second building of Venezuela and the seventh one of Latin America, it was an almost a mission impossible to enter to the structure the safety and then already in the heliport I made several extreme movements, since hang of an alone hand, practise bars and even realize mortal jump in one of the cornices between others ".
The sportsman who is the Venezuelan only one that practises the discipline of the Skywalking, revealed that it has been frightened but then it goes on to a condition of total freedom mixed with many adrenaline and achievement to forget the whole chaos that is lived. " My following great challenge was the top of the towers conquered Central Park, which has 60 floors and 255 meters of height including for beam where it manages to raise myself, there hang myself with an alone arm without previous warming, we record several videos realized by the photographer Giovanny Chacón executing extreme movements. This was a fulfilled dream ", it sighed.
It detailed that this sport originated as a mode in Russia, which has spread to other countries as The United States, there at least two dozens of young women defy the dizziness and realize extreme movements in the biggest skyscrapers of the world. " My aim is to put the national tricolor in the highest thing, I have other new challenges in mention already the country one will take several surprises of high place I strike. They can follow me across my social networks in twitter and instagram for 
Struck and stolen by civil servants of the Sebin
Rengifo it reported that when it conquered the top of Central Park, to already to finish the photographies and recordings were surprised by three civil servants of the Service Bolivariano of National Intelligence (SEBIN), who accused them of being terrorists and beginning to strike them. " They fell us to kicks and they were not shouting that we were terrorist, for more than three hours they kept us retained and up to the cellular one they were stolen. Thanks to god we hid one of the memories and saved something from the compiled material. I was frightened I confess it but I will continue defying the heights in my dear Venezuela, I am a sportsman not a delinquent ", it exclaimed.