Trespassers scale The Shard – Europe's tallest building

A group of seemingly fearless climbers broke into Europe’s tallest building, The Shard, and scaled the pinnacle, according to a blog

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It might be 1,000 metres tall and inspired by a shard of glass, but that didn’t stop a group of dare devils breaking into the building in the dead of night last December. Photos and videos of the group’s expedition have since been posted on the Place Hacking blog, a site dedicated to recording stunts of these kinds.

The latest post on the Place Hacking blog reveals how two men climbed the stairs to the top of the building where they lasted half an hour. Posted by Bradley L. Garrett on Easter Saturday, the post reads: “We only lasted about half an hour on top before our muscles were seizing up and we were actually yearning for the stair climb down. Which is always much easier than coming up.”