Montparnasse tower.
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49 minutes.
This is the time it took Alexis Landot, 21, to climb the Montparnasse tower in Paris with his bare hands on Sunday.
He thus achieved an ascent of 210 meters without assistance or rope, reports France 3 Paris Ile-de-France.
Video of the event was posted to YouTube on Saturday.
The feat, filmed by a GoPro camera attached to the climber's head, another on the ground and a drone in the air, was condensed there in fifteen minutes. not reproduce ”, warns the young Parisian on the forecourt before embarking on climbing.
Heat burnt fingers
Throughout the ascent, the young man, who has been climbing since he was 13-14 years old, comments on the movements he has to make and his feelings.
Several parameters had to be taken into account.
"First of all, there is the heat of the structure with the sun, it burned my fingers", explains Alexis Landot to France 3.
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“There is also the height of the building.
And the Montparnasse tower has two more complicated sections where it is impossible to rest: the two black bands, when you reach the first and third quarter of the building, ”continues the young climber.
“You have to do everything in one go.
And even on the rest of the climb, the breaks are generally very active.
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The Parisian will be auditioned at the end of April for “endangering the life of others”, this kind of practice being prohibited by law.
But the young man already has other desires for ascension.
He would like to go to Barcelona, probably to compete against the Agbar Tower.
A feat achieved by Alain Robert in March 2020.
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