Elevated playground: Roof jumping in St Petersburg

Stunning view: The prize for those who scale rain gutters and pipes is an unsurpassed panorama of the city of the tsars. - AFP photos

‘Roofers’ get a thrill exploring Russia's imperial city from up high.

St Petersburg has long been a tourist favourite, but if this band of young Russian thrill-seekers is to be believed, the best way to see the country’s imperial capital is by hopping roof to roof.