Free runner James Kingston posts Eiffel Tower climb video

No, actually, we’re not going to suggest you do what James Kingston did.

Along with his mate, Esty Tomas, the duo take the phrase “living life on the edge” way too literally, climbing to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

But that was no problem for Kingston, whose footage has been viewed more than 130,000 times.

It features petrifying scenes of the 25-year-old scampering along iron beams without a harness or safety measures of any kind.

‘It was clear we’d been spotted so we legged it down a few stories and found a couple of holes inside the framework that we had no choice but to hide in’.

That’s when Kingston said he heard shouting from a radio, indicating the guards had spotted them.

Mr Kingston wrote on YouTube: “The Eiffel Tower has been one of my goals for quite a while”. He called it a “slow” process, but said they eventually made it to the tower’s top platform.

They then waited for sunrise, “playing around on the tower” for a few hours before workers and tourists started arriving.

“As far as I could tell, the tower was ours for the night”, the caption on the video reads.

Hours went by with security going up and down with torches and they even turned on all of the tower’s lights during their search.

At 9 a.m., the guys were busted and had to climb down and meet with security.

He said: “We started the climb at 1am narrowly avoiding the patrolling security (which seemed more like the French army as they were in full camo & had massive guns) and wormed our way through what seemed like endless CCTV cameras”. Their punishment was a slap on the wrist as they promised not to climb the tower again for at least three years.