A British man made it more than halfway up the exterior of the world’s fifth tallest building before he was stopped and handed to police, according to South Korean authorities.
The man, in his twenties, was forced to abandon his free climb of the 123-floor Lotte World Tower in the South Korean capital Seoul, the Songpa Fire Station said in a press release. He had reportedly scaled the outside of the skyscraper to the 72nd floor without any equipment before fire officers intervened. The Songpa Fire Station said its force arrived on site at 7:56 a.m. local time and “rescued” the man by putting him into a maintenance cradle and pulling him into the building.
Police are investigating how he approached and climbed the tower, and the company said it will review whether to make structural or system changes so that unauthorized climbing from the ground is not possible, Lotte added. King-Thompson was previously prosecuted and jailed for climbing the London skyscraper The Shard in 2019, according to UK court documents. He also BASE-jumped off Europe’s tallest roller coaster in Spain in 2022, resulting in a suspended sentence, according to British media.
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