Watch: Free Climbers Scale To Top Of Unfinished Bridge To Take An Illegal Selfie

This is the moment a pair of climbers decided it would be a good idea to scale the top of a bridge that hasn’t even been completed to take a selfie.

Police are investigating after the men - identified as free climbers Pavel Smirnov and Ozcan Ipar - scaled the heights of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey.

The pair managed to avoid tight security to climb to the top of one of the two towers for the selfie video that they later posted online - risking serious injury or death in the process.

Security: The pair managed to avoid detection (CEN)

Risk: With no safety equipment, the climbers were lucky to avoid serious injuries or death (CEN)

The General Directorate of Highways, which oversees the construction of the bridge, said in a statement that a private company was tasked with providing security at the site.

He warned that ”those responsible for the security breach in a place monitored by security cameras and personnel will be punished”.

Investigation: Police are now tracking the men down for their illegal climb (CEN)

Under construction: The bridge is yet to be completed (CEN)

Construction of the bridge and the Northern Marmara Highway is reportedly close to completion, with a catwalk that will be used to span the main cable between the two towers already finished.

It will unite the two sides of the Bosphorus, a natural strait located in north-western Turkey, for the first time and it will become the widest in the world once fully completed.