Andrei Plian News Today

Swedens rooftop snow clearers brave vertigo in white winter Issued on: 12/02/2021 - 05:08 3 min Stockholm (AFP) With regular snowfalls in recent weeks, rooftop birds in Swedens capital have ceded their perches to an army of "sweepers" clearing the roofs of snow in the name of safety. Teetering on the edge of a black tin roof 10 metres (33 feet) above ground, Andrei Plian and Alex Lupu clear a thick white blanket of snow off a building in Stockholms historic Gamla Stan (Old Town), while their ...

Stockholms rooftop "sweepers" have been kept busy with snowfall since the beginning of the new year. The roofers brave dizzying heights to clear the citys rooftops of piled-up snow and dangling ice. "In the beginning it was like scary all the work and not just the snow one, working on the roof was scary but after a while you get used to it, it is like usual work, you dont think so much about that," Andrei Plian, a roofer, told AFP. Equipped with ropes and shovels, the sweepers blow a whis...