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George King woke up early on Monday, June 12. It was still dark when he left his motel in southeastern Seoul's Jamsil area, but the weather was already alarmingly humid. Down the street he walked, about 1 kilometer away from his hotel, was Lotte World Tower, the sixth-tallest building in the world.
A British free climber has scaled 72 floors of the world's fifth-tallest skyscraper in Seoul with only his bare hands, prompting authorities to detain him. George King-Thompson, 24, has previously been jailed for climbing the 1,016ft Shard skyscraper in London. The climber got more than halfway up the 1,820ft Lotte World Tower on Monday, 12 June. More than 90 emergency, police and other personnel were dispatched to the 123-storey building. According to a statement shared by Mr King-Thompson's sponsor, vape brand Riot E-liquid, he planned to parachute off the top of the building, then...
George King-Thompson dreamt of climbing Lotte World Tower while in prison for climbing the Shard, according to his sponsor.
British free climber George King-Thompson reached the 72nd floor of the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea, before he was made to get onto a window-washing lift and moved inside the 123-story high-rise.
George King-Thompson dreamt of climbing Lotte World Tower while in prison for climbing the Shard, according to his sponsor.