Local time on April 2, British George King (George King) in the absence of any ropes and safety measures, in 20 minutes to successfully summit the 116-meter-high Barcelona Hotel in Spain. (Photo source: Internet)
A British man recently climbed a 116-meter-high Spanish hotel with his bare hands, becoming the first person in 2021 “unarmed rock climbing”, causing a sensation. He has been arrested by local police for violating local laws.
On April 2, local time, the British George King (George King) in the absence of any rope and safety measures, in 20 minutes successfully climbed the top of the 116-meter-high Spanish Barcelona Hotel. After returning to the ground, he was arrested by Catalan regional police for failing to apply for a permit in advance and is now facing a police fine.
George King, now 21, said he felt a different kind of happiness when he was on the roof. And “when I came back to the ground and met the police, my head was still in the clouds, which was unusual for me.”
George King says he did it because it was his dream. To date, George King has climbed many structures, and in August 2018, at the age of 18, he climbed the world’s tallest freestanding climbing wall, the 37-meter-high “Excalibur Tower of King Arthur” in Groningen, the Netherlands, unassisted; in October, he became the first person to climb the world’s tallest freestanding climbing wall, the Excalibur Tower); in October, he became the first person to climb the UK’s highest climbing wall without any safety equipment.
George King was born into a middle-class family; his mother worked in the family business and his father was a chartered surveyor. There is no such thing as genetics, but he became interested in rock climbing at the age of 12. First it was the roof of their house, then he started climbing walls and then cranes, on which he performed aerial stunts like handstands or sit-ups. It is estimated that he has climbed more than 100 times since then.
He says: It took years of training and thorough preparation to become the person I am today, and this practice was made possible because I consider myself a person who follows a respectable passion, albeit an unusual one. I believe that each of us has a gift. Your task is to find the gift, make it your passion, and then make it your purpose.
He recalls how he spent 15 minutes alone in the air while climbing a 144-meter tall “Abata skyscraper” (Spanish: Torre Agbar) in Barcelona, a stranger stepping into another world and gazing at the normality below. “It was mysterious, like I stepped into another dimension,” he says. “It’s almost an unfathomable feeling when you’re completely free.”
In 2019, he made his name by climbing unassisted to the top of the Shard in London, Britain’s tallest building at 310 meters, a 309.6-meter-tall building, a climb that took him 45 minutes. But then, he also violated by the building’s management rules, and was eventually sentenced to six months in prison.
He said in an interview: “I was 13 years old when I first saw the Shard, and I felt I had to climb it. It planted the seed in me.”
In 2018, he moved to the capital to make ends meet with door-to-door fundraisers and personal trainers while training hard for about four hours a day. “I’m living a double life in a way”, he says: “My parents don’t know, so I hide what I have to do to protect their emotions.”
He also revealed that the most challenging part of the climb was when he reached the top of the building, there were generators near the top with a lot of dust and grease on them, so the last part of the journey was a bit tiring. But he did not consider his actions reckless because he had prepared a lot for it.
For George King, freedom has always been a gift and a curse, and the pursuit of risk and climbing to new heights, with life and all its limitations, has been a test of my mind, not my body”. six months in prison did not curb his desire to climb, and he made a list of the buildings he wanted to climb next while in prison. in January 2020 When he was released in January 2020, he said, “I will never let adversity extinguish my spirit.
He wrote on Instagram, “I’ve often been called a man who’s not afraid to die, an adrenaline junkie, a reckless teenager and so on. But I always find that these names come from people who are ignorant or misinformed about what I really do and why. It took years of training and careful preparation to get to where I am today, and that approach was only possible because I consider myself a person with a passion, albeit an unusual one. I believe we all have a gift. Our mission is to find that gift and make it your goal.”
“Rappelling” is the extreme sport of climbing steep rock faces single-handedly without any protection, without relying on any apparatus, and without a partner. Due to the extreme danger of “up to 50% mortality”, hand climbing has surpassed wingsuit flying and death bungee jumping, ranking among the top ten extreme sports in the world.
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