It is not in the secluded wastes of Nature but before a large audience that the equally precarious activities of the "castellers" are performed. In the course of large fiestas these Spanish athletic groups compete with one another to form the highest tower ("castell") composed of people with the ever-imminent risk that the human pyramid could end up collapsing like a house of cards, bringing all the participants tumbling down.
Footage from a TV documentary about such casteller groups formed ...

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