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Sweden's 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 Sweden's 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 Stockholm's historic Gamla Stan (Old Town), while their colleague on the street below keeps watch to warn pedestrians passing by. While to many the job w...

Stockholm's rooftop "sweepers" have been kept busy with snowfall since the beginning of the new year. The roofers brave dizzying heights to clear the city's 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 don't think so much about that," Andrei Plian, a roofer, told AFP. Equipped with ropes and shovels, the sweepers blow a whistle to alert people below so they don't get hurt.