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Scouting the building

recognition so some days i' I'd wear a suit and I'd sort of pose myself as an office worker and I'd have a conversation with a concierge and I'd just get a feel for their respon...

Course: Champions and bold adventuresSection: Climbing The ShardSubtitles: en

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pattern

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recognition so some days i' I'd wear a

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suit and I'd sort of pose myself as an

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office worker and I'd have a

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conversation with a concierge and I'd

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just get a feel for their response rate

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or other times I'd wear sports kit and

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I'd run up to a pillar of The Shard and

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I'd stretch on it I'd measure that It Go

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the pillar would go from my wrist to the

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elbow and then I run back home and then

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I get a tape measure and i' measure from

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my wrist to the elbow and then I'll get

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a measurement and that would be my piece

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of information uh from the REI and I do

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that over a hundred times trying to get

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one piece of information each and every

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time and uh eventually I I got all the

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information I needed and I was I was

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ready to do

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[Music]

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it I must have got 2 and 1 half hours

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sleep not much at all I I woke up and uh

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around 3:30 a.m. and then as the sun's

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coming up I exited the hotel I walk

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across the the road and I enter London

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Bridge station all the senses are

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heightened I hear a walkie-talkie

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crackle in in the distance and I go up

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the stairway and I run across uh the

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railway and I get onto climb onto London

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Bridge station I get a suction cup onto

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another level and then I make my way to

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The Shard and started

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