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Jesus Christ, what a selfie!

It’s the selfie to end all selfies — taken while perched precariously atop the imposing Christ the Redeemer statue that watches over Rio de Janeiro.

Lee Thompson got a view not many others in the world have ever experienced — or are ever likely to.

After climbing up 12 flights of a spiral staircase and crawling through a tiny hole to reach the statue’s head, Thompson — along with colleague Oliver Harvey — reached the top of the 130-foot statue.

From there he prepared himself to experience one of the most unique views of Brazil.

“It was absolutely breathtaking, it felt incredible to be up there,” he told News Corp. Australia.

“I felt like the luckiest person in the world.

“All the tourists who I’d been standing with at the bottom half an hour before were all waving. They looked tiny.”

Christ the Redeemer, one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks, sits atop Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking Rio de Janeiro. It is one of the largest Art Deco statues in the world.

Thompson said he and Harvey were granted access to the iconic statue by Brazil’s tourism board.

“I got lucky and managed to meet the right person,” he said.

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“I said, ‘Can we do this, it’ll be great to show the world what it looks like at the top’ and he said yes.

“I think I got him on a good day.”

The pair were in Rio de Janeiro documenting the preparations for this year’s World Cup.

Since posting the photos on his blog on The Flash Pack UK — a company he co-founded a year ago — the photos and video of his epic selfie have gone viral.

He said that while in the picture, it appears that he’s balancing on top of the statue, his legs are actually firmly inside. He is, however, wearing no safety gear.

Once at the top, Thompson said, he and Harvey spent about an hour drinking in the view of surrounding Rio de Janeiro and taking countless pictures.

“We were really lucky, we were just left up to these two workers who let us loose,” he said.

“It was very cool.”

Thompson says he considers himself a bit of an adrenaline junkie — he photographed the Libyan civil war and Egypt revolution — but his selfie is “definitely up there with the craziest things I’ve done.”

He said he is heading back to Brazil for the World Cup and hopes to get more photos “even half as good” as his one with Jesus.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.