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Illusionist and ‘endurance artist’, David Blaine has completed ‘Electrified’, the latest in a long line of daring escapades. Stepping out on to a 20-foot pillar for three days and nights surrounded by an artificial lightning storm fizzling with a million volts of electric current, he wore a chain mail ‘Faraday suit’ with a wire helmet and visor, which acted as a barrier for the electric current. He describe the stunt as ‘one of the craziest things that I have ever dreamed up’ and ‘I’m literally shocked that it came together’.

Earlier in the week, Blaine admitted he was worried there may be unknown risks of exposure to such a severe lightning storm for so long a period. The death-defying magician conditioned his body for the task ahead by consistently shocking himself at home!

Blaine’s other high profile performances include Frozen in Time, which saw him encased in a massive block of ice in Times Square, New York for 63 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds before being removed with chain saws and Above the Below, a 44 day endurance stunt in a transparent Plexiglas box suspended on the River Thames, London where Blaine survived only on 4.5 litres of water per day. He was reported to have lost 25% of body weight.