Leonardo Pereira admitted that he was afraif the first time he ever dangled from this almost 3,000-foot cliff of Pedra da Gavea in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“The first time I was a bit scared,” Pereira told ABC News. “I just sit down, but the next time I hang off and make Victoria get [do] the same thing.”
Pereira, 23, said he met his girlfriend Victoria Nader, 18, while rock climbing in Rio.
In fact, one of the couple’s very first dates was hiking to the top of Pedra da Gavea, Pereira said.
“She was a bit afraid to sit down there, but I said ‘There’s no problem,'” Pereira recalled.
The pair said they consider themselves to be avid adventurers. They’ve made daredevil moves throughout their travels, including: rappelling down a 230-foot building, hiking to the top of the 9,488-foot mountain Pico da Bandeira and, of course, dangling off the edge of Pedra da Gavea — one of the highest mountains in the world that juts above an ocean.
The couple’s heart-stopping photos have earned them quite a few Instagram followers. Check out their pictures here: @leonardopereira1 and @victorianader1.
While there’s been skeptic chatter over whether the photos were photoshopped or not, Pereira insisted that every image is 100 percent real.
“There’s no rope, just my arm and [I] trust myself,” he said. “We love living on the edge, it’s make us alive and make us challenge ourselves.”
“We love adrenaline and adventure things, there’s no time or weather that stop us,” Pereira added. “I think that everyday someone call us crazy, but I think crazy [isn’t] someone that you won’t like. There’s a quote that inspires me a lot: “‘If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal'”
Pereira said his and Nader’s next wild adventure will include an African safari and diving with great white sharks.
