Daredevil scales Copenhagen’s tallest hotel before leaping from top
A daredevil who reached peak infamy after leaping from the tip of The Shard has been at it again in Copenhagen.
George King-Thompson, who goes by Shardclimber on Instagram, made the plunge off the Radisson Blu Scandinavia hotel in the Danish capital.
The influencer said he previously attempted the feat in 2021, but came five metres short from the summit due to unscrewed vents.
He ended up abandoning the dive and climbing down, before being arrested.
Four years later, he successfully jumped off the tower in what he called a ‘redemption’.
The four-star hotel is located on the Stadsgraven canal.
A clip of George undertaking his challenge at 5am showed him using metal vents to climb up the side of the skyscraper.
After jumping off the edge, a red and black parachute bursts out of his bag just in the nick of time.
He then landed safely in the car park.
Describing the trepidation as he reached the tower’s summit, he wrote: ‘Leading up to this. Morale was low. There were thoughts and emotions. Thoughts which made me want to abort and fly back home.
‘I knew I never would.
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‘Instead I lay in a field in my bivvy. In the rain. Patiently waiting for the weather to get good.’
He continued: ‘It is hard to see the significance of these kinds of moments in the present. It just feels torturous. Looking back… it’s beautiful. It’s the test.
‘Eventually, the gods open up a weather window. The fear evaporates and I’m left cold and clinical.’
George was previously handed a six-month sentence for taking his hobby to the top of the Shard in London.
He ascended the 310-metre, 72-storey glass structure, without the aid of ropes or suction pads, in July 2019.
The climb landed him in jail as it breached a court injunction sought by the tower’s owners in 2018 to prevent a protest about the number of empty apartments in the landmark.
Two years later, in 2021, he returned to London to mount two more skyscrapers within two weeks, the Stratosphere Tower and the 93-metre, 23-storey Unex Tower.
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