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Take a Head-Spinning Climb Up the Eiffel Tower
Evading tons of cameras and gun-wielding guards is just the first challenge of conquering Paris’ steely landmark.
What’s it take to climb the Eiffel Tower without getting busted? A stealthy evasion of gun-toting security guards and security cameras, teetering on narrow beams above a steely abyss, and the willingness to hide in a metal hole for hours, according to this harrowing account from James Kingston.
Kingston, a British builderer whose exploits include dangling from huge cranes one-handed and back-flipping on Ukraine’s tallest bridge, writes that conquering Paris’ iconic prong has “been one of my goals for quite a while.” His plan of starting from the tower’s second platform about 377 feet above ground didn’t work because of nosy crowds. So he and a friend took the long route starting from the base.