James Kingston - "Free Climber"

The Adversary · August 18, 2015

So recently I discovered this guy's youtube channel. He describes himself as a free climber and scales tall urban structures such as cranes and buildings without any supervision or safety precautions. Armed with nothing but his courage and a goPro camera.

If you're like me you'll find this absolutely fascinating. I can't watch this without my heart rate rising and getting sweaty palms. When he reaches the top, he usually stands free form without holding on to anything and you can hear the wind in his camera :P I judged this guy to be a lunatic with a death wish but you'll find people in the comment section defending his actions saying it is all educated risk and that they have done similar in the past. I think this will serve as an interesting discussion.

Another thing I'm wondering is how he's not locked up at this stage as for most of his stunts he breaks into a building site (Although some of his stunts have been done legally. Eg Wembly arch). I'm not sure about UK trespassing law but If I was to hazard a guess I'd say it would be fairly in line with Irish law and this guy could get up to three years (Especially when he videos all the incriminating evidence and broadcasts it to the world) If this guy was to plummet to his death who would be culpable?

Here are some of his exploits:

[video=youtube;snjFYt_k1j4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snjFYt_k1j4

[video=youtube;HH7bJAMLBYQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH7bJAMLBYQ

[video=youtube;edAnAYf-lBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAnAYf-lBE