{"id":322948,"date":"2021-08-12T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/free-climber-scales-another-london-skyscraper\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:19:32","slug":"free-climber-scales-another-london-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/free-climber-scales-another-london-skyscraper\/","title":{"rendered":"#Free climber scales another London skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Free climber scales another London skyscraper<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 Embrace the fear or risk death.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the mantra of George King-Thompson, 21, a British free climber who scaled his second London skyscraper in a little over a week on Thursday morning and his third overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how to get into that mindset, I know how to not be overwhelmed by fear but to control it and utilize it and use it to my advantage and that\u2019s what I do every single climb and that\u2019s what I did today,\u201d he said after climbing the 23-story Unex Tower in the east London district of Stratford.<\/p>\n

King-Thompson, who was jailed two years ago after climbing London\u2019s tallest building, The Shard, says he\u2019s trying to raise awareness about climate change following flooding in London last month.<\/p>\n

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King shakes hand with a prison guard he knew from when he served time in prison who coincidently walked past as he was being interviewed after he came back down from the Unex Tower.<\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/Matt Dunham<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The former personal trainer from Oxford climbed Unex Tower, a 305-foot (93-meter) residential building, without ropes in around 10 minutes, stopping to have a vape two stories from the top. Nine days ago, he conquered the neighboring and taller Stratosphere Tower.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter how easy the technical climb is and aspect of it is, you can never underestimate the potential for death. So every climb, I treat and focus with the same level of intensity, otherwise it could be fatal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

King-Thompson, who has been \u201cdoing these sorts of things\u201d since he was 10, is clearly a thrill-seeker.<\/p>\n

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This was the second tower King climbed in nine days. <\/figcaption>
Yui Mok\/PA via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re climbing the building, you have every emotion, every endorphin, every dopamine receptor, serotonin receptor firing at once to optimize your survival,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pushing the odds in his favor is partly a mental feat, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I\u2019m not a pessimist nor an optimist. I\u2019m a realist,\u201d King-Thompson said. \u201cI can train all I like, but there\u2019s always that little bit of a percentage that I could die. So that\u2019s in the back of your mind, but once you\u2019re on the building, once you\u2019re doing your thing, there\u2019s no room for any thoughts like that. It\u2019s just you in the moment getting to do what you have come to do. Once you come out of that the feeling is an overwhelming sense of you are through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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King at the top of Unex Tower after climbing the building in 10 minutes. <\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/Matt Dunham<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King-Thompson was arrested in 2019 after scaling The Shard, which is the UK\u2019s tallest skyscraper at 310 meters (1,017 feet) tall. The owners of the building pressed charges against him for trespassing. He was sentenced to six months in prison in October 2019 and served three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people say how horrific prison is and it is, but my whole thing is I like stepping into the fray, I like danger, so I was, in a weird sense, quite at home there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just like looking over my shoulder and not know what\u2019s coming next.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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