In his return to the $1.4 billion-grossing Mission: Impossible franchise, Cruise scales the outside of the world's tallest tower - the Burj Hotel in Dubai, at almost 830m tall. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is Cruise's fourth M:I film; in previous instalments the 49-year-old performed stunts on motorcycles and cliff faces.
In Ghost Protocol he climbs the exterior of the Burj wearing only suction gloves, then rappels down the building using a fire hose and swings himself back into an open window. All of this action takes place a vertigo-inducing 130 storeys high.