Daredevil free climber scales one of Europe's highest skyscrapers

Crowds watched as the 21-year-old British free climber made his way to the top

Last updated: April 03, 2021 | 11:25

Reuters and Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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Barcelona: George King, the man who free-climbed The Shard in London, took his life in his hands again when he scaled one of Europe's highest skyscrapers in Barcelona on Friday without any ropes or safety measures.

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Crowds watched as the 21-year-old British free climber made his way to the top of the 116-metre (381 ft) Melia Barcelona Sky Hotel in the Spanish city.

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As he was coming down, he was arrested by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan regional police and faces a fine.

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"When I was at the top I felt that I was in another dimension of bliss," said King.

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"When I met the police on the way down my head was still in the clouds."

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King scaled the Barcelona hotel in about 20 minutes.

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He first climbed the 310-metre (1,017 ft) The Shard building in London in 2019, the highest tower in the United Kingdom, without any safety apparatus.

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The feat earned him six months in a young offenders' centre for breaching a civil injunction taken out by the owners of the building.

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King, from Oxford in England but currently travelling around Europe in a van, has also climbed the 144-metre (474 ft) Agbar Tower skyscraper in Barcelona.

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British skyscraper climber George King free-climbs the Melia Barcelona Sky hotel in Barcelona on April 2, 2021.

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