Freerunner Jason Roy

For the first time in its 33-year history, the world’s largest ice city was the playground for one of the planet’s leading freerunners. Jason Paul travelled to the North of China in January to reinterpret his sport in a completely new way. The 23-year-old German from Frankfurt brought fascinating images: freerunning on ice – Freezerunning!

Temperatures in the Chinese megacity of Harbin constantly fall below minus 25 degrees Celsius in wintertime. But despite letting the coldness paralyze the life in town, the capital of the Heilongjiang province celebrates the frost: Since 1985, Harbin has held the annual “International Ice & Snow Sculpture Festival”.