Hong Kong: The Towering Inferno

The World in Images

S05E16
February 9, 2026 11 min

Overview

While behind him, towers hundreds of meters high were ravaged by flames, this man's cry of distress resonated around the world. A historic photograph that became iconic thanks to a simple principle: bringing the disaster down to a human scale.

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