We spoke to the man who climbed to the top of one Dubai's tallest skyscrapers without a harness
James Kingston is no stranger to great heights. The 25-year-old has scaled over 100 buildings and has now released footage of himself conquering his greatest challenge yet - Marina 101, Dubai's highest residential tower.
Kingston climbed the building - which is set to be completed this year - in early 2015, but only uploaded the video to YouTube over the weekend.
"I had so much other content to put out," he replied when we asked why it took him so long to upload the footage.
"The height of it was what inspired me to do it," Kingston, who "never" wears a harness, told Business Insider. "It's by far the tallest thing I've had the chance to climb so I had to give it a shot." According to the database The Skyscraper Center, Marina 101 stands at 1,399 feet (426 metres.)
"It took me about an hour and a half to get to the roof of the building using the crane to get up the first 50 meters or so," he wrote in a post on YouTube. "It was then about an hour of stairs while trying not to die of dehydration."
Though Kingston, who lives on Britain's South Coast, has been arrested at least four times for his exploits before - once in Paris, for climbing to the peak of the Eiffel Tower, once in Ukraine, and twice in Germany - running into the police hasn't stopped him yet.
"To prevent getting arrested I think it's important to just be super nice to whoever you interact with," he said. "I always explain what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Maybe show them a few pictures as that usually gets them smiling."
Kingston plans to take his climbing adventures to Hong Kong next. He told us that since his climb in Dubai he has "climbed taller [buildings] again but you'll have to wait and see for that one!"
Until then you can watch Kingston climb to more dizzying heights, check out the YouTube video of his climb at Marina 101 below.