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How two Russian daredevils became Kenya’s unlikely brand envoys
Angelina "Angela" Nikolau and Vanya "Ivan" Beerkus, the couple who climbed to the top of the Empire State Building spire, depart New York City Criminal Court after their arraignment, in the Manhattan Borough of New York, US on July 2, 2026.
It began, as so many Kenyan internet phenomena do, not in Nairobi but miles away, nearly 1,150 feet above New York City’s Manhattan neighbourhood in the United States.
Last Wednesday, Russian rooftoppers Angelina Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov scaled the Empire State Building and somehow made their way to the summit of the 102-storey skyscraper without safety tethers.
