"Spiderman" climbs Sydney building into police net

SYDNEY: A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney on Monday after climbing a 57-storey building and into the arms of waiting police.

Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, was taken into police custody when he reached the top of the 57-storey Lumiere Building in central Sydney on Monday morning.

Robert, 48, took 20 minutes to scale the 151 metre (495 feet) tall building using just his bare hands and without safety equipment, cheered on by a crowd of about 100 onlookers.

“It’s a wonderful achievement,” his agent Max Markson told reporters. “He’s the best at what he does. I’m sad he’s been arrested, but hopefully he’ll get out soon and we can have some champagne.”

Robert has been arrested many times in various countries as authorities rarely give permission for his dangerous

Malaysia Tower Scaled By French Spiderman

KUALA LUMPUR: A French climber dubbed “Spiderman” for his ropeless ascents of some of the world’s highest skyscrapers scaled a Malaysian tower he had tried to ascend twice before, and was then arrested.

Alain Robert, 47, used the cover of pre-dawn darkness to avoid detection from security guards at the 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers, and reached the top floor in around an hour and 45 minutes.

“I did try twice to climb, and climbing to the top is one of my dreams. It’s a bit like a love story, not only about climbing the tallest building to make it official but about completing something unfinished,” Robert told foreign news agency ahead of the climb.

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Malaysia Tower Scaled By French Spiderman was first posted on September 1, 2009 at 5:08 pm.
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