the Fort Boyard, like you’ve never seen! Each year, Olivier Minne and the France 2 teams open the doors of this historic monument to viewers to launch the summer game. If many personalities have had the chance to set foot on the site, the Fort is however never open to the public. A Youtubeur has nevertheless decided to offer a private visit. It is Max Von Croft.
In September 2021, the latter indeed managed to get inside the monument during the winter period and stayed there for two days. That’s enough time to shoot his new YouTube video and to reveal behind the scenes of the show. “I infiltrated Fort Boyard. Quite clearly the most epic adventure on my channel“, announced with enthusiasm the amateur of urbex (urban exploration of generally abandoned places). To achieve his ends, Max Von Croft was not afraid of risk. It was in a kayak that he was able to dock , before starting to climb on a rope and climb the twenty-meter high wall of the Fort, report our colleagues from South West. His journey summarized in almost 30 minutes in his video was intended to reveal behind the scenes. But the Youtuber warns: “You are likely to be extremely disappointed, it’s just cardboard. There are technical installations and cables everywhere, it’s super expensive, but you can’t see it on TV at all.“
We don’t want to find a corpse in the Fort
The audacity of Max Von Croft had something to impress Internet users. In contrast, the show’s production company, Adventure Line Productions, chose to crack down. Indeed, she filed a complaint against the young man. “With this complaint, our primary goal is to mark the occasion and above all to dissuade other people from having the same idea. We want to avoid potential dramas in the future. We don’t want to find a corpse in the Fort“, said the company with the Parisian. And for her to recall the initiative “ultra-dangerous” from the Youtuber. “It’s unconscious. He could have fallen while climbing the wall. The phone does not pick up everywhere inside, if there had been a problem, no one would have known“, she also explained. Since this offense, the security systems have been reinforced.
Max Von Croft for his part defended himself from having wanted to encourage his community to reproduce his actions. “The purpose was not to show how to enter the fort but what was insidehe told the Parisian. My goal was not to screw up the mess or annoy the production but to make me like it, to make a performance.” The fighter will still be judged mid-September but he hopescourteous contact with production“.