After scaling part of the 330m-tall monument without any equipment, the climber was taken into custody for ‘endangering the lives of others’. A British man has been arrested after he climbed halfway up the Eiffel Tower hours before the start of the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games . The shirtless man, identified as a professional climber in French media, scaled the 330m-tall monument without any equipment.
In one video shared on social media , the blond, bearded man, who has not been named, looks into the camera and says: “Bloody warm, innit?”. Footage captured the man climbing the lattice-work above the Olympic rings at about 2.45pm local time.
He was heading towards the second floor of the tower, where he was stopped and arrested..
