Frenchman Does Whatever a Spider Can
A daredevil climber known as “Spiderman” scaled a French oil company’s headquarters using only his bare hands.
Alain Robert, 38, was later taken to a police station because he did not have authorization to climb the 627-foot-tall TotalFinaElf building in Paris.
“It’s long and quite difficult at the end,” Robert said after the climb.
Robert has climbed more than 30 skyscrapers, including the world’s tallest building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building in New York.
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