This is the nail-biting moment an Edinburgh roofer shimmies across a narrow length of slate to re-tile part of a Capital church.
Anxious Leithers watched as the fearless worker confidently strode along a beam more than 50 feet in the air during repair work to St James the Less on Johns Place.
Eyewitnesses told how the daring worker navigated carefully along the precariously placed section of the roof slate with no evidence of any harness or support being attached, before affixing a tile to the surface.
The church is undergoing work to repair large sections of the roof which were damaged during inclement weather earlier in the year.
One eyewitness told Edinburgh Live: “It had my heart in my mouth watching him, he must have been around 50ft up.
“It was amazing though, he was just shuffling along, placing the slate and then shuffling back again; his balance was impeccable.
"We've seen them quite often over the past few weeks while the renovation work has been going on climbing over different parts of the roof, that's quite scary to watch.
“There was only a width of slate protecting him from a fall, it was nerve racking to see but quite impressive.”
