# @vice on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGPeN3FDUa8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25649392-vice-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/1f3b017eee.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-03-15T15:00:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** VICE (@VICE) — https://gondola.cc/VICE

## Caption

VICE joins French Free Solo Climber, Alexis Landot, as he prepares for his hardest climb yet, The Mercury Tower in Paris, and learns why he climbs and how free soloing skyscrapers brings him peace amid the many stressors and sources of anxiety in his day.

Drone Footage provided by: Corto Frisch Ta Minh & Valentin Arcaniss

00:00 Intro
01:29 Meet Alexis 
06:04 The French Spiderman 
08:26 Alexis's First Climb
11:20 Scouting the Next Climb
12:51 The Parkour Scene 
15:33 It's Not Technically Illegal 
18:00 The Climb
 

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## Stats

- **Views:** 951,277
- **Likes:** 12,190
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 1,515

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VICE | @VICE | https://gondola.cc/VICE | Media Production Company |
| Zachary Halpin | @zach1031 | https://gondola.cc/zach1031 | Social Media Strategist |

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