A group of extreme athletes met for the third annual International Highline Meeting in the northern Italian Alps.

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But it’s not your traditional meeting with colleagues in a small, cramped room. Instead, these athletes gathered at Italy’s Monte Piana, walking tightropes from mountain to mountain to reach their friends.

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They even spent the night suspended in hammocks.

They look pretty calm for people far off the ground.

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