![]() ![]() ![]() But many credit a counterculture group known as the Suicide Club, formed in San Francisco in the late 1970s, as the progenitors of modern urban exploration. So who exactly are these urban explorers? What is it that makes them risk their well-being in pursuit of places the rest of us have deemed useless or unsafe? Find out about what urban explorers do and how the pastime got started on the next page.Ĭuriosity about abandoned places has fostered urban exploration (UE) for centuries. Still, urban explorers brush past warning signs, hop fences and crawl through tunnels to enter these strangely alluring quarters. ![]() What’s more, surveying these sites is against the law: Entering condemned, forbidden and abandoned property is considered trespassing and can carry fines and even jail time. Most of the places these explorers trod are derelict their structural integrity is questionable, and sometimes these sites are lousy with toxic materials. ![]() Abandoned buildings that may make some shudder with the creeps offer invitations of exploration to others. In some places, new town quarters are built on top of old ones. Within and underneath functioning cities, sections have been lost or left to decay. There are entire modern abandoned cities dotting the planet, begging to be investigated. And some people actually prefer this kind of forest. These are cities of concrete and steel with skyscrapers and underground tunnels. "We are artists, and it is hard to codify artistic inspiration.While natural forests are composed of trees, shrubbery, wildlife and streams, there's a new great outdoors here on Earth: man-made forests. "From subterranean tunnels up to the tops of towers and roofs, from abandoned sites through to active sites, we each have our particular haunts. "Essentially, we go wherever we please throughout New Zealand and overseas, and document our adventures in still and moving images and in words. No-one was available from Urbex, but the group say they are a loose affiliation of Kiwi explorers. Urban exploration gained public exposure here when the group sneaked into the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral and other red-zoned areas of Christchurch. URBAN EXPLORER MOVIE MOVIEThe North Korean prison set atop Deer Park Heights, which no longer offers public access, was built for the 1988 movie The Rescue, about a group of teenagers who infiltrate a prison to rescue their fathers. Urbex Central unveiled photographs in 2015 of an abandoned film set overlooking Queenstown. The Waitaki District Council, in 2013, said the consents were still live. but others just cannot wait to get rid of it," he said. Some liked it for the shelter it provided but others detested it because it divided the camp and restricted access to the lake, he said. Its director was Dean Wright, the visual effects supervisor who worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and, recently, Creed.Īfter the movie was mothballed, it was reported that campers were using the set to store boats.įalstone Creek camp manager Ben Aubrey, in 2011, said campers had mixed views about the set. Photographs show a large, overgrown set, designed to resemble an ancient town.Ī casting call went out in 2008 seeking swarthy men and women. ![]()
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