Teenager spent MONTHS scoping out security before climbing the Shard

The Shard – The daredevil who ‘freeclimbed’ the Shard early this morning has been revealed as a 19-year-old from Oxford who spent months casing the building to discover when lax security would allow him to achieve his ‘dream’.

George King told MailOnline he experienced a ‘Godlike feeling’ at the top of the building saying: ‘It’s a totally remarkable experience. Euphoria is an understatement.’

But he also revealed he had scoped out the building – considered one of the capital’s most likely targets for terrorist activity – every other day for three months wearing numerous different disguises.

He said: ‘It took me four months to plan to get there. I moved to London to plan this climb, so I was close to the Shard.

‘I spent months looking at sensors, looking at cameras, timing security.’

He said he discovered the security, both police and building security, was ‘least active’ around the London Bridge area at around 5am.

Asked about his reconnaissance of the building, he explained: ‘For three months it was every other day, and I’d change my disguises regularly.

‘Sometimes I’d be in a suit, sometimes I’d be on crutches, sometimes I’d be in sporting clothes and I’d lean on the pillars looking like I was stretching but I’d be measuring them against my body’.

Source – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7223611/Daredevil-spotted-scaling-1-000ft-tall-Shard.html