Alain Robert is a talented
rock climber born on August 7, 1962, nicknamed
Spiderman.
The diminutive Frenchmen is famous for the
solo
ascent of
skyscrapers or
buildering (a pun on
bouldering).
He uses no
safety equipment; all he
takes with him is a
chalk bag and his climbing shoes. It's usually
a race to get to the top before the local police figure out what he's doing
and try to stop him. Robert has climbed more than 50 buildings.
Here are some of them
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1. These ascents are all documented but that's not the case
for all of the climbs claimed for him in the media.
There is some doubt about, for instance, whether he really did climb the
Empire State Building in 1994.
He has a website now alainrobert.com