Height of stupidity
A TEENAGE daredevil famed for free-climbing tall buildings has risked his life again – scaling the Forth Road Bridge. Adam Lockwood, 19, and three friends posed for selfies at the top of the structure, which towers about 500ft above the River Forth. A film of the stunt shows the climbers
BY SARAH LUMLEY reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk scaling one of the tower’s cables with just two wires on either side for support.
Adam can just be heard saying “my lungs are bursting” after completing the ascent and taking in the view as the winds buffet the structure.
The neighbouring Forth Bridge and Queensferry Bridge can be seen on both sides.
Adam, from Wigan, Lancashire, later said: “The last time I came to Scotland I wanted to climb this bridge but the weather was too bad so I couldn’t.
“We had a last-minute spontaneous idea to come to Scotland and within 30 minutes of us arriving, we climbed the bridge.
“It was decent to be up there, windy but it was still a nice walk up the cable.
“From the bottom to the top took around 10 minutes, I’d say. It’s just really steep so hard on your legs.”
The mile-and-a-half long bridge is the latest in a long list of structures scaled by reckless Lockwood and his friends.
Earlier this year, he was seen clinging to the edge of a 590ft balcony on an apartment block in Canary Wharf, London. He has also been snapped hanging from buildings in Milan and Paris.
After returning to ground level after the dawn ascent last Thursday, Adam was arrested on suspicion of “culpable and reckless conduct”, though he has not been charged.