Teenage daredevil risks death to scale the Forth Road Bridge

Teenage daredevil risks death to scale the Forth Road Bridge

A teenage daredevil famed for free-climbing tall buildings has risked his life again - this time to scale the Forth Road Bridge.Adam Lockwood, 19, and three friends posed for selfies at the top of the structure, which towers around 500ft above the River Forth in central Scotland.A film of the stunt shows the climbers 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 straddling the bridge on both sides.Adam 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 Adam and his friends.Earlier this year he and clung to the edge of a 180 metre-high (590 feet) balcony on the Madison apartment block in Canary Wharf, central London.But after returning to ground level after the dawn ascent last Thursday (23/07), Adam was arrested by police on suspicion of 'culpable and reckless conduct' though he has not been charged.

A teenage daredevil famed for free-climbing tall buildings has risked his life again - this time to scale the Forth Road Bridge.Adam Lockwood, 19, and three friends posed for selfies at the top of the structure, which towers around 500ft above the River Forth in central Scotland.A film of the stunt shows the climbers 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 straddling the bridge on both sides.Adam 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 Adam and his friends.Earlier this year he and clung to the edge of a 180 metre-high (590 feet) balcony on the Madison apartment block in Canary Wharf, central London.But after returning to ground level after the dawn ascent last Thursday (23/07), Adam was arrested by police on suspicion of 'culpable and reckless conduct' though he has not been charged.